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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Feb;175(2):171–177. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.6388

Table 2.

Occurrence of fracture according to study group.

Rosuvastatin (n=8901 Placebo (n=8901) Hazard ratio p*

No. of
patients
Incidence rate
(per 100 person-
years)
No. of
patients
Incidence rate
(per 100
person-years)

Incident fracture 221 1.20 210 1.14 1.06(0.88–1.28) 0.53
  Men 99 0.85 105 0.89 0.97(0.74–1.28) 0.83
  Women 122 1.80 105 1.58 1.16(0.89–1.50) 0.28

Hip 23 0.12 14 0.07 1.67(0.85–3.23) 0.14

Vertebral 22 0.12 18 0.10 1.23(0.66–2.30) 0.52

Upper Extremity 72 0.39 65 0.35 1.12(0.80–1.56) 0.53

Lower Extremity 71 0.38 64 0.34 1.13(0.80–1.58) 0.50

Skull, face, finger, toe 29 0.16 25 0.13 1.17(0.69–2.00) 0.57

Other 25 0.13 35 0.19 0.73(0.43–1.21) 0.22
*

Adjusted for age (continuous), sex, blood pressure ≥140/90 mmHg or use of anti-hypertensive medications (yes/no), current tobacco use (yes/no), body mass index (categories: <25, 25–30, ≥30 kg/m2) exercise (categories: rarely or less than once per week, once/week, 2–6 times/week, daily), race, alcohol use (categories: ≤1–3 times/month, 1–6 times/week, 1–3 times/day, ≥4 times/day), baseline HbA1c in quartiles (<5.5, 5.5–5.7, 5.7–5.9, >5.9%), hs-CRP in tertiles (<3.2, 3.2–5.8, ≥5.8) and previous fracture history.

Only the first fracture is included in incident fracture. Some participants had multiple fractures. All confirmed fractures are included in hip, vertebral, upper extremity, lower extremity, skull, face, finger, toe and other categories.