Table 3.

The fracture risk calculation according to increasing numbers of the metabolic syndrome (IDF criteria)

	ORs (95 % CI)
Numbers of components of MetS	0	1	2	3	4	5	P value for trend
Men	1	0.99 (0.72–1.32)	0.97 (0.69–1.30)	1.01 (0.75–1.36)	1.02 (0.75–1.39)	1.10 (0.94–1.43)	0.132
Women	1	0.98 (0.70–1.31)	1.02 (0.79–1.42)	1.28 (1.04–1.71)	1.42 (1.11–1.82)	1.58 (1.25–2.24)	0.002

We defined participants without osteoporotic fractures as 0 and those with osteoporotic fractures as 1. Adjusted for age, smoking, alcohol consumption habits (yes/no), physical activity (MET-h/wk), eGFR, BMI, menopause status (yes/no) and hormone replacement (yes/no) treatment for women