Table 2.
BMD and FRAX stratified by presence of vertebral fracture.
| No vertebral fracture | Vertebral fracture | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 56 | n = 22 | |||||||||||||
| Variable | Median | Mean | SD | Range | Median | Mean | SD | Range | P-value* | |||||
| BMD, femoral neck | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.5–1.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.5–0.9 | 0.34 | |||||
| T score, femoral neck | −1.8 | −1.9 | 0.7 | −3.3–−0.7 | −2.2 | −2.0 | 0.8 | −3.4–−0.6 | 0.33 | |||||
| BMD, total hip | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.6–1.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.5–1.2 | 0.22 | |||||
| T score, total hip | −1.2 | −1.3 | 0.9 | −3.0–0.3 | −1.4 | −1.5 | 1.1 | −3.7–0.0 | 0.51 | |||||
| BMD, lumbar spine | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.8–1.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.5–1.3 | 0.11 | |||||
| T score, lumbar spine | −1.1 | −0.9 | 1.6 | −4.0–4.6 | −1.8 | −1.6 | 1.8 | −5.2–2.1 | 0.10 | |||||
| FRAX (Osteo) without BMD (%) | 9.3 | 10.8 | 6.2 | 1.8–33.0 | 15.0 | 16.0 | 6.8 | 6.8–31.0 | 0.001 | |||||
| FRAX (Hip) without BMD (%) | 4.0 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 0.1–24.0 | 6.8 | 8.1 | 6.0 | 1.7–25.0 | 0.03 | |||||
| FRAX (Osteo) with BMD (%) | 7.5 | 9.5 | 6.9 | 1.9–33.0 | 11.0 | 14.0 | 7.8 | 5.4–41.0 | 0.002 | |||||
| FRAX (Hip) with BMD (%) | 3.0 | 4.5 | 5.1 | 0.1–28.0 | 4.5 | 6.6 | 7.1 | 1.1–36.0 | 0.03 | |||||
*P values are from the Wilcoxon rank sum test.
BMD measurements are in g/cm2.