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. 2013 Apr 4;14:121. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-14-121

Table 2.

Comparison of all patients according to their pre-specified groups

    Total n=834 Group 1 BRF n=183 Group 2 Combination of RFs n=334 Group 3 FRF n=170 Group 4 No RFs n=147 P value
Age (SD)
 
67.3 (10.4)
65.6 (9.5)
70.0 (10.4)
67.6 (10.8)
63.0 (8.7)
 
Sex n (%)
 
 
 
 
 
 
<0.001
 
Women
608 (72.9)
127 (69.4)
278 (83.2)
120 (70.6)
83 (56.5)
 
 
Men
226 (27.1)
56 (30.6)
56 (16.8)
50 (29.4)
64 (43.5)
 
Fracture location n (%)
 
 
 
 
 
 
<0.001
 
Major
286 (34.3)
61 (33.3)
143 (42.8)
47 (27.6)
35 (23.8)
 
 
Minor
548 (65.7)
122 (66.7)
191 (57.2)
123 (72.4)
112 (76.2)
 
Subsequent fracture n (%)
Total
57 (6.8)
9 (4.9)
32 (9.6)
7 (4.1)
9 (6.1)
0.069
 
1st year
34 (59.6)
3 (33.3)
22 (68.8)
3 (42.9)
6 (66.7)
 
 
2nd year
23 (40.4)
6 (67.7)
10 (31.2)
4 (57.1)
3 (33.3)
 
Mortality n (%)   29 (3.5) 6 (3.3) 13 (3.9) 7 (4.1) 3 (2.0) 0.728

Chi-square and Fisher’s exact tests were used for categorical variables and ANOVA F-tests for numerical variables.