Table 1.

Baseline characteristics by fracture history within each of the race/ethnic groups.

	US White		Tobago Afro- Caribbean		US African- American		US Hispanic		US Asian		Hong Kong Chinese		Korean
	Fx(−)	Fx(+)	Fx(−)	Fx(+)	Fx(−)	Fx(+)	Fx(−)	Fx(+)	Fx(−)	Fx(+)	Fx(−)	Fx(+)	Fx(−)	Fx(+)
	N=4401	N=941	N=606	N=35	N=207	N=36	N=109	N=17	N=170	N=20	N=1859	N=109	N=3702	N=189
Age(years)	73.7±5.9	74.6±6.1*	72.2±5.7	73.2±6	71.7±5.2	71.5±4.9	71.8±4.6	73.2±5.5	72.9±4.9	73.4±6.6	72.3±5.0	73.3±5.2	71.1±4.3	71.9±4.4*
Weight(kg)	83.6±12. 9	83.1±13.7	79.9±14. 5	79.6±12.7	85.3±14. 9	91.8±18.6 *	81.2±13. 2	87.9±11.9	69.8±9.2	72.3±10	62.5±9.3	61.6±9.3	63.4±8.9	62.8±9.1
Height(cm)	174.5±6. 6	174.4±6.8	172.2±6. 7	172.5±6.1	173.6±7. 1	176.4±7.4*	170.2±6. 1	171.8±7.2	166.7±6	168.1±5. 4	163.1±5. 7	162.9±5.6	164.2±5. 8	164.4±5.7
Lumbar BMD	1.15±0.1 9	1.10±0.19*	1.24±0.21	1.14±0.17*	1.22±0.22	1.15±0.22	1.13±0.19	0.97±0.13*	1.12±0.18	1.07±0.2 1	1.03±0.19	0.99±0.18*	1.09±0.2	1.05±0.21*
Femoral neck BMD	0.87±0.13	0.83± 0.13*	1.03± 0.17	0.95± 0.15*	0.98±0.1 6	0.96±0.19	0.90±0.1 3	0.83±0.09*	0.84±0.1 2	0.82±0.1 3	0.82±0.1 2	0.78±0.12*	0.89±0.1 2	0.85±0.13*
Total femur BMD	0.98±0.1 4	0.93±0.14*	1.12±0.1 6	1.04±0.14*	1.05±0.1 5	1.03±0.20	0.99±0.1 4	0.91±0.06*	0.92±0.1 1	0.89±0.1 4	0.90±0.1 3	0.86±0.12*	0.85±0.1 2	0.82±0.13*
Ever smoker (%)	62.0	65.1*	32.7	51.4*	65.2	75.0	62.4	58.8	54.7	60.0	63.5	67.0	77.3	84.7*
Current smoker (%)	3.1	3.2	6.4	5.7	11.1	11.1	0.9	11.8*	2.4	5.0	11.6	14.7	23.3	28.0
Alcohol consumptio n (%)	66.0	65.5	51.2	42.9	50.7	41.7	73.4	70.6	44.7	50.0	24.0	19.3	61.7	60.3

Data are presented as mean � standard deviation or percent.

^*p value <0.05 for comparison of fracture versus non-fracture groups.