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. 2024 May 23;24:1387. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-18897-w

Table 1.

Characteristics of the study population

Overall (N = 13,196) Bone fracture P value
Yes (N = 700) No (N = 12,496)
Estimated annual incidence of myocardial infarction, cases/per 100,000 people 149 353 138 -
Myocardial infarction incidence, n (%) 329 (2.5) 42 (6.0) 287 (2.3) < 0.001
Age, years 36.0 ± 13.4 43.5 ± 13.5 35.6 ± 13.2 < 0.001
Age categories, years < 0.001
 < 50 10,904 (82.6) 467 (66.7) 10,437 (83.5)
 ≥ 50 2292 (17.4) 233 (33.3) 2059 (16.5)
Gender, n (%) < 0.001
 Male 6308 (47.8) 399 (57.0) 5909 (47.3)
 Female 6888 (52.2) 301 (43.0) 6587 (52.7)
BMI, kg/m2 23.1 ± 3.9 22.7 ± 3.4 23.1 ± 3.9 0.002
BMI categories, kg/m2 0.059
 < 24 8468 (64.2) 473 (67.6) 7995 (64.0)
 ≥ 24 4728 (35.8) 227 (32.4) 4501 (36.0)
Hypertension history, n (%) < 0.001
 Yes 1099 (8.3) 162 (23.1) 937 (7.5)
 No 12,097 (91.7) 538 (76.9) 11,559 (92.5)
Diabetes history, n (%) < 0.001
 Yes 258 (2.0) 35 (5.0) 223 (1.8)
 No 12,938 (98.0) 665 (95.0) 12,273 (98.2)
Smoking (ever), n (%) < 0.001
 Yes 3160 (23.9) 353 (50.4) 2807 (22.5)
 No 10,036 (76.1) 347 (49.6) 9689 (77.5)
Alcohol consumption (ever), n (%) < 0.001
 Yes 4027 (30.5) 427 (61.0) 3600 (28.8)
 No 9169 (69.5) 273 (39.0) 8896 (71.2)

BMI, body mass index