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Table 3 Baseline risk factors and falls previous year for hip fracture

From: FRAX® tool, the WHO algorithm to predict osteoporotic fractures: the first analysis of its discriminative and predictive ability in the Spanish FRIDEX cohort

 

17 Women with fracture

753 Women without fracture

P- value

CI 95%

RR

CI 95% RR

Age (SD)

69.4 (7.1)

56.5 (7.8)

<0.001

9.2-16.7

11.49 (*)

(4.12 – 32.08)

Weight (SD)

64.8 (8.1)

66.7 (11.5)

0.498

ns

-

-

Height (SD)

153.1 (7.3)

155.2 (5.8)

0.139

ns

-

-

BMI (SD)

27.7 (3.0)

27.7 (4.7)

0.945

ns

1.02 (**)

(0.06 – 16.43)

Previous Fracture (%)

47.1

20.1

0.012

3.1- 50.9

3.42

(1.34 – 8.71)

Parental Hip Fracture (%)

17.6

15.5

0.738

ns

1.16

(0.34 – 3.98)

Smoker (%)

0.0

11.4

0.242

ns

0.225

(0.01 – 3.71)

Alcohol Risk (%)

0.0

1.1

1.000

ns

2.42

(0.16 – 37.26)

Glucocorticoids (%)

11.8

3.1

0.102

ns

3.97

(0.96 – 16.45)

Rheumatoid Arthritis (%)

11.8

0.8

0.012

4.3-26.3

12.7

(3.46 - 46.63)

Falls in previous year (%)

35.3

22.8

0.246

ns

1.81

(0.68 – 4.84)

Osteoporosis (baseline DXA) (%)

58.8

27.2

0.004

8.0-55.2

7.86 (‡)

(1.02 – 60.80)

Osteopenia (baseline DXA) (%)

35.3

50.5

0.215

ns

2.63 (Φ)

(0.32 – 21.65)

Normal (baseline DXA) (%)

5.9

22.3

0.106

ns

-

-

  1. RR: Relative Risk, ns: no statistical significance.
  2. (*) < 65 vs. ≥ 65 years.
  3. (**) < 20 vs. ≥ 20.
  4. (‡) Osteoporosis vs. normal.
  5. (Φ) Osteopenia vs. normal.