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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 9.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2010 Dec 17;22(6):1835–1844. doi: 10.1007/s00198-010-1419-7

Table 1.

Prevalence of Fracture and Osteoporosisa in Elderly Medicare Populationb, 2002
  • National Estimates from Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey
Fracture Osteoporosisa Controls (non-cases) Total
Sample Size (weightedc), n 497 2196 6489 9182
Percent of Population 5.4% 23.9% 70.7% 100.0%
Population Estimate (millions) 1.6 7.2 21.3 30.2
a

Diagnosis, medication, or self-report for osteoporosis, or self-reported past hip fracture, but no fracture in 2002

b

Excludes those with malignant neoplasms

c

MCBS national population weights for respondents normalized to MCBS sample size of 12,697. Raw sample sizes for fracture, osteoporosis, controls, and total, are 577, 2158, 6152, and 8887, respectively.