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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Rheumatol. 2013 Aug 15;40(10):1669–1676. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.121493

Table 3.

Distribution of all fractures and fragility fractures among 349 Olmsted County, Minnesota men following their initial diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), by fracture site and proximate cause, compared with an equal number of age-matched non-RA men

All Men Men ≥ 50 Years Men < 50 Years
Fracture site All Fractures
N (%)
Fragility Fractures*
N (%)
All Fractures
N (%)
Fragility Fractures*
N (%)
All Fractures
N (%)
Fragility Fractures*
N (%)
RA Non-RA RA Non-RA RA Non-RA RA Non-RA RA Non-RA RA Non-RA
Skull/face 4 (2%) 2 (1%) 1 (1%) 0 (0%) 2 (1%) 0 (0%) 1 (1%) 0 (0%) 2 (3%) 2 (4%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Hands/fingers 9 (4%) 16 (11%) 2 (1%) 4 (4%) 5 (3%) 10 (11%) 2 (1%) 4 (5%) 4 (7%) 6 (11%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Distal forearm 7 (3%) 10 (7%) 2 (1%) 5 (5%) 6 (3%) 4 (4%) 2 (1%) 4 (5%) 1 (2%) 6 (11%) 0 (0%) 1 (4%)
Proximal humerus 9 (4%) 2 (1%) 7 (4%) 2 (2%) 9 (5%) 2 (2%) 7 (5%) 2 (3%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Other arm 5 (2%) 1 (1%) 3 (2%) 1 (1%) 5 (3%) 1 (1%) 3 (2%) 1 (1%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Clavicle/scapula/sternum 8 (3%) 7 (5%) 1 (1%) 2 (2%) 4 (2%) 3 (3%) 0 (0%) 2 (3%) 4 (7%) 4 (7%) 1 (2%) 0 (0%)
Ribs 51 (21%) 28 (19%) 38 (21%) 18 (19%) 40 (21%) 21 (23%) 29 (21%) 15 (20%) 11 (18%) 7 (12%) 9 (20%) 3 (13%)
Thoracic/lumbar vertebrae 98 (40%) 51 (34%) 91 (50%) 45 (46%) 72 (39%) 32 (34%) 67 (49%) 30 (41%) 26 (43%) 19 (34%) 24 (53%) 15 (65%)
Cervical vertebrae 5 (2%) 2 (1%) 2 (1%) 1 (1%) 4 (2%) 2 (2%) 1 (1%) 1 (1%) 1 (2%) 0 (0%) 1 (2%) 0 (0%)
Pelvis 8 (3%) 2 (1%) 5 (3%) 1 (1%) 6 (3%) 1 (1%) 4 (3%) 1 (1%) 2 (3%) 1 (2%) 1 (2%) 0 (0%)
Proximal femur 15 (6%) 5 (3%) 14 (8%) 4 (4%) 12 (6%) 4 (4%) 11 (8%) 4 (5%) 3 (5%) 1 (2%) 3 (7%) 0 (0%)
Other leg 20 (8%) 14 (9%) 12 (7%) 10 (10%) 14 (7%) 8 (9%) 7 (5%) 7 (9%) 6 (10%) 6 (11%) 5 (11%) 3 (13%)
Feet/toes 9 (4%) 9 (6%) 4 (2%) 4 (4%) 8 (4%) 5 (5%) 3 (2%) 3 (4%) 1 (2%) 4 (7%) 1 (2%) 1 (4%)

All sites 248 149 182 97 187 93 137 74 61 56 45 23
*

excludes severe trauma and pathologic fracture