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Table 4 Baseline fracture risk factors between patients for ‘hip osteoporotic fracture’

From: Rationale of the Spanish FRAX model in decision-making for predicting osteoporotic fractures: an update of FRIDEX cohort of Spanish women

 

With fracture (n = 26)

Without fracture (n = 1282)

p- value

95 % CI

RR

RR 95 % CI

Age (SD)

69.7 (6.8)

56.9 (8.0)

<0.001

[9.7–15.9]

-

-

Age > 65 (%)

76.9

18.1

<0.001

[42.5–75.1]

13.97 a

[5.8–33.5]

BMI (SD)

27.2 (3.5)

27.9 (4.8)

0.310

ns

  

BMI < 20 (%)

3.8

2.5

0.664

ns

1.55 b

[0.3–8.2]

Previous fracture (%)

53.8

20.7

<0.001

[13.8–52.4]

4.28

[2.0–9.0]

Parental hip fracture (%)

19.2

14.1

0.460

ns

1.44

[0.6–3.6]

Smoker (%)

0

11.7

0.063

ns

-

-

Alcohol risk (%)

0

0.7

0.834

ns

-

-

Corticoids (%)

15.4

4.8

0.036

[3.3–24.5]

3.48

[1.3–9.2]

Rheumatoid arthritis (%)

7.7

1.0

0.034

[3.6–17.0]

7.18

[1.9–22.3]

Falls previous year (%)

38.5

23.0

0.065

ns

2.06

[1.0–4.4]

Osteoporosis (baseline DXA) (%)

65.4

27.5

<0.001

[19.4–56.3]

6.80 c

[1.8–26.3]

Osteopenia (baseline DXA) (%)

26.9

49.7

0.021

[5.5–40.1]

1.60 d

[0.4–6.8]

Normal (baseline DXA) (%)

7.7

22.9

0.067

ns

-

-

  1. CI confidence interval, RR relative risk, SD standard deviation, BMI body mass index, ns non statistical significance, DXA dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
  2. a < 65 vs ≥ 65 years
  3. b < 20 vs ≥ 20
  4. c Osteoporosis vs normal
  5. d Osteopenia vs normal