Table 3.

Fracture risk in osteoporotic postmenopausal cohort^*

Fracture type	Vertebral Fx Arm RR (95% CI)	Clinical Fx Arm (T < −2.5) RR (95% CI)	Osteoporotic cohort RR (95% CI)
Morphometric ≥1	0.53 (0.41–0.68)	0.51 (0.31–0.84)	0.52 (0.42–0.66)
Morphometric ≥2	0.10 (0.05–0.22)	0.40 (0.08–1.95)	0.13 (0.07–0.25)
Clinical vertebral	0.46 (0.28–0.75)	0.84 (0.38–1.83)	0.55 (0.36–0.82)
Any clinical	0.74 (0.59–0.92)	0.64 (0.50–0.82)	0.70 (0.59–0.82)
Any non-vertebral	0.81 (0.64–1.03)	0.65 (0.50–0.83)	0.73 (0.61–0.87)
Hip	0.49 (0.23–0.99)	0.44 (0.18–0.97)	0.47 (0.26–0.79)
Wrist	0.52 (0.31–0.87)	0.88 (0.55–1.40)	0.70 (0.49–0.90)

^*Note: Black et al 2000.

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; Fx, fracture; RR, relative risk.