Table 1. Baseline characteristics of women and men. The Tromsø Study.
| Non-fracture | Non-vertebral osteoporotic fractures | ||||
| Variables | Any | p-value* | Hip | p-value* | |
| Women | (n = 1281) | (n = 356) | (n = 88) | ||
| Age (y) | 69.0 (6.3) | 70.3 (6.3) | 0.001 | 74.1 (6.3) | <0.001 |
| Height (cm) | 160.3 (6.0) | 160.9 (5.9) | 0.09 | 160.6 (6.1) | 0.74 |
| Weight (kg) | 69.5 (11.9) | 67.9 (11.3) | 0.03 | 66.1 (11.9) | 0.01 |
| Femoral neck BMD (g/cm2) | 0.83 (0.12) | 0.79 (0.11) | <0.001 | 0.75 (0.11) | <0.001 |
| Femoral neck T-scores | –1.46 (1.19) | –1.89 (1.10) | <0.001 | –2.30 (1.06) | <0.001 |
| Prior fracture, n (%) | 0.004 | 0.11 | |||
| 0 | 972 (75.9) | 242 (68.0) | 60 (68.2) | ||
| 1 | 185 (14.4) | 68 (19.1) | 16 (18.2) | ||
| 2 | 89 (7.0) | 26 (7.3) | 6 (6.8) | ||
| 3 | 35 (2.7) | 20 (5.6) | 6 (6.8) | ||
| Fall in the last 12 month, n (%) | 0.03 | 0.02 | |||
| 0 | 903 (70.5) | 228 (64.0) | 52 (59.1) | ||
| 1 | 360 (28.1) | 125 (35.1) | 36 (40.9) | ||
| 2 | 18 (1.4) | 3 (0.8) | 0 (0) | ||
| Men | (n = 1238) | (n = 117) | (n = 47) | ||
| Age (y) | 69.6 (5.6) | 71.1 (6.5) | 0.006 | 72.8 (5.9) | <0.001 |
| Height (cm) | 174.2 (6.6) | 176.1 (6.4) | 0.002 | 176.7 (6.8) | 0.008 |
| Weight (kg) | 80.5 (11.5) | 83.0 (13.8) | 0.02 | 82.4 (14.6) | 0.26 |
| Femoral neck BMD (g/cm2) | 0.94 (0.13) | 0.88 (0.13) | <0.001 | 0.84 (0.1) | <0.001 |
| Femoral neck T-scores | –0.91 (1.22) | –1.40 (1.18) | <0.001 | –1.74 (0.88) | <0.001 |
| Prior fracture, n (%) | 0.057 | 0.12 | |||
| 0 | 1119 (90.4) | 101 (86.3) | 38 (80.9) | ||
| 1 | 90 (7.3) | 10 (8.6) | 7 (14.9) | ||
| 2 | 21 (1.7) | 6 (5.1) | 2 (4.2) | ||
| 3 | 8 (0.7) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | ||
| Fall in the last 12 month, n (%) | 0.16 | 0.63 | |||
| 0 | 856 (69.1) | 71 (60.7) | 32 (68.1) | ||
| 1 | 361 (29.2) | 44 (37.6) | 15 (31.9) | ||
| 2 | 21 (1.7) | 2 (1.7) | 0 (0) | ||
Values are mean (SD), unless otherwise specified.
* Compared with non-fracture group.