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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 4.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2014 May 21;25(8):2109–2116. doi: 10.1007/s00198-014-2738-x

Table 2.

Age-standardized fracture incidence rates (per 100,000 person-years) since the initiation of bisphosphonate treatment according to medication possession ratio (MPR)

Intertrochanteric/femoral neck fractures
Subtrochanteric/femoral Shaft fractures
MPR<1/3 MPR 1/3–<2/3 MPR ≥2/3 MPR<1/3 MPR 1/3–<2/3 MPR ≥2/3
#Cases
 Year 1 813 598 1307 72 53 130
 Year 2 1341 592 1016 99 54 123
 Year 3 1122 466 645 84 52 106
 Year 4 671 293 325 47 36 64
 Year 5 162 80 90 <11 14 <11
Rate(95 % CI)
 Year 1 498.8(465.1–534.4) 650.6(599.5–704.9) 566.2(535.9–597.8) 44.1(34.5–55.5) 57.6(43.2–75.4) 56.3(47.0–66.9)
 Year 2 937.5(888.0–989.1) 797.1(734.2–864.0) 722.8(679.0–768.7) 69.4(56.4–84.5) 72.2(54.2–94.2) 87.9(73.1–105.0)
 Year 3 1072.2(1010.4–1136.9) 941.9(858.2–1031.7) 799.4(738.8–864.7) 80.5(64.2–99.7) 104.5(78.0–137.1) 131.1(107.3–158.7)
 Year 4 1085.2(1004.5–1170.8) 980.2(870.6–1099.9) 773.3(691.1–862.8) 76.5(56.1–101.8) 117.8(82.4–163.5) 152.7(117.5–195.4)
 Year 5 1166.0(992.3–1361.6) 1020.7(807.7–1273.1) 892.4(715.8–1100.3) 73.1(34.8–135.2) 172.3(93.7–291.8) na
P value
 Year 1 ref <0.001 0.0046 ref 0.14 0.09
 Year 2 ref 0.001 <0.001 ref 0.82 0.08
 Year 3 ref 0.02 <0.001 ref 0.14 0.0009
 Year 4 ref 0.15 <0.001 ref 0.05 0.0003
 Year 5 ref 0.33 0.04 ref 0.04 na
P values
 Year 1 ref 0.0049 ref 0.88
 Year 2 ref 0.06 ref 0.22
 Year 3 ref 0.007 ref 0.18
 Year 4 ref 0.003 ref 0.21
 Year 5 ref 0.39 ref na