Table 5.

New onset fractures in patients who met only FRAX^* criteria of the NOF guidelines or patients with osteoporosis by BMD^† of the WHO

Values are expressed as number of participants (percent) in the category listed. ^*Candidates were defined as patients with osteoporosis by BMD criteria of the WHO. See materials and methods for the definition of osteoporosis by BMD criteria of the WHO; ^†10-yr probability of ≥20% for major osteoporotic fracture or ≥3% for hip fracture; ^‡1 of 4 femur fractures was atypical shaft fracture. FRAX, fracture risk assessment tool; NOF, National Osteoporosis Foundation; BMD, bone mineral density; WHO, World Health Organization.