Table 2.

Osteoporosis features in the study analysis population as a function of treating physician

	GPs N = 810	Rheumatologists N = 317	Gynaecologists N = 179	p	Total N = 1,306
Age (mean ± SD; years)	N = 809 66.4 ± 8.6	N = 317 68.6 ± 9.5	N = 178 60.7 ± 7.0	≤ 0.001	N = 1,305 66.2 ± 9.2
Densitometry in the last 6 months	N = 806 651 (80.8%)	N = 316 296 (93.7%)	N = 179 170 (95.0%)	≤ 0.001	N = 1301 1,117 (85.9%)
T score (mean ± SD)
Hip	N = 574 -2.15 ± 1.25	N = 290 -2.28 ± 1.00	N = 166 -2.15 ± 0.96	0.125	N = 1,030 -2.19 ± 1.14
Spine	N = 573 -2.29 ± 1.48	N = 287 -2.50 ± 1.09	N = 167 -2.49 ± 0.97	0.167	N = 1,027 -2.38 ± 1.31
T score by class	N = 577	N = 254	N = 142		N = 973
Normal BMD (T score < -1)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0.192	2 (0.2%)
Osteopenia (-2.5 < T score < -1)	53 (9.2%)	17 (6.7%)	11 (7.8%)		81 (8.3%)
Osteoporosis (T score ≤ -2.5)	524 (90.8%)	235 (92.5%)	131 (92.3%)		890 (91.5%)
Osteoporotic fractures	N = 777 407 (52.4%)	N = 311 177 (56.9%)	N = 162 27 (16.7%)	≤ 0.001	N = 1,250 611 (48.9%)
Number of osteoporotic fractures (mean ± SD)	N = 386 1.38 ± 0.70	N = 169 1.68 ± 1.18	N = 27 1.33 ± 0.88	0.021	N = 582 1.47 ± 0.89
Fracture site	N = 376	N = 148	N = 26		N = 550
Spine	162 (43.1%)	77 (52.0%)	8 (30.8%)	0.060	247 (44.9%)
Wrist	173 (46.0%)	43 (29.1%)	15 (57.7%)	≤ 0.001	231 (42.0%)
Upper arm	18 (04.8%)	8 (05.4%)	1 (03.9%)	0.932	27 (4.9%)
Hip	42 (11.2%)	10 (06.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0.081	52 (9.5%)
Other	35 (09.3%)	27 (18.2%)	7 (26.9%)	0.002	69 (12.6%)
Patients with at least one risk factor for osteoporosis	639 (78.9%)	260 (82.0%)	129 (72.1%)	0.037	1028 (78.7%)
Diagnosis of osteoporosis	N = 810	N = 317	N = 179	< 0.001	222 (17.0%)
Low BMD + osteoporotic fracture	126 (15.6%)	087 (27.4%)	009 (05.0%)		222 (17.0%)
Low BMD only	495 (61.1%)	160 (50.5%)	160 (89.4%)		815 (62.4%)
Osteoporotic fracture only	189 (23.3%)	070 (22.1%)	010 (05.6%)		269 (20.6%)

Between group differences were determined with the Kruskal-Wallis test or Fisher's exact test, as appropriate.