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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2015 Jul 4;81:67–71. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2015.07.003

Table 2. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% Confidence Intervals (CIs) for the association between specified fracture type and hip fracture, and Pearson Correlation Coefficients, and Kappa statistics for the correlation between hip fracture and other fracture types.

Fracture Types Odds Ratiosa All Fractures (95% CI) Odds Ratiosa Excluding Potential Trauma (95% CI) Kappab All Fractures Kappab Excluding Potential Trauma Pearson Correlation Coefficientc All Fractures Pearson Correlation Coefficientc Excluding Potential Trauma
Pelvis/Acetabulum n=32,906 47.6 (46.5, 48.6) 12.0 (11.5, 12.5) 0.21 0.05 0.25 0.07
Femur n=120,713 10.0 (9.9, 10.2) 4.5 (4.4, 4.7) 0.15 0.05 0.15 0.05
Shoulder n=58,318 9.1 (8.9, 9.3) 4.6 (4.5, 4.8) 0.10 0.04 0.11 0.04
Spine n=130,950 5.4 (5.3, 5.5) 3.7 (3.7, 3.8) 0.09 0.05 0.09 0.05
Forearm n=65,617 5.1 (5.0, 5.2) 3.0 (2.9, 3.1) 0.06 0.02 0.06 0.03
Tibia/Fibula n=52,439 4.7 (4.5, 4.8) 2.8 (2.6, 2.9) 0.05 0.01 0.05 0.02
Rib n=174,859 4.5 (4.4, 4.6) 3.2 (3.1, 3.2) 0.08 0.05 0.08 0.05
Other n=92,618 4.0 (3.9, 4.1) 2.3 (2.2, 2.4) 0.06 0.02 0.06 0.02
a

For the odds of specified fracture in patients with hip fractures compared to the same odds in patients without hip fractures

b

The chance adjusted association between specified fracture type and hip fracture

c

For the correlation between the specified fracture type and hip fracture