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. 2016 Jul 6;11:913–925. doi: 10.2147/CIA.S107285

Table 1.

Baseline demographics, disease characteristics, comorbidities, and previous or concomitant osteoporosis treatments of patients with osteoporosis at high risk of fracture in Japan

Characteristics Patients (N=1,847)
Age
 Mean (SD), years 75.4 (9.1)
 Median (min, max), years 76 (31, 101)
 30 to <50 years, n (%) 19 (1.0)
 50 to <65 years, n (%) 210 (11.4)
 65 to <75 years, n (%) 531 (28.7)
 75 to <85 years, n (%) 839 (45.4)
 ≥85 years, n (%) 248 (13.4)
Height, mean (SD), cm 148.0 (7.8)
Weight, mean (SD), kg 47.3 (8.9)
Females, n (%) 1,711 (92.6)
Menopause status, n (%)
 Premenopause 9 (0.5)
 Postmenopause 1,554 (90.8)
 Unknown 148 (8.6)
Age at menopause, mean (SD), yearsa 48.9 (4.8)
Current smoker, n (%)b 35 (1.9)
Alcohol consumption (>3 U/d), n (%)b 29 (1.6)
History of fracture, n (%)b 1,180 (63.9)
Past surgery for fracture, n (%) 243 (13.2)
History of proximal femoral fracture in patients’ parents, n (%)b 76 (4.1)
Vertebral fractures, n (%) 962 (52.1)
 1 370 (20.0)
 2 230 (12.5)
 ≥3 362 (19.6)
Nonvertebral fractures, n (%) 238 (12.9)
 1 191 (10.3)
 2 36 (1.9)
 ≥3 11 (0.6)
BMD, % of YAM, n (%)b
 ≥80% 133 (7.2)
 70 to <80% 150 (8.1)
 <70% 670 (36.3)
CKDb stage, n (%)
 1 194 (10.5)
 2 710 (38.4)
 3 350 (18.9)
 4 30 (1.6)
 5 3 (0.2)

Notes:

a

Information on age at menopause was available for 598/1,554 postmenopausal female patients.

b

Information was not available on history of fracture for 224 patients; history of femoral fracture in patients’ parents for 872 patients; BMD for 894 patients; CKD for 560 patients; current smoking status for 410 patients; and alcohol consumption for 442 patients from the 1,847 patient cohort.

Abbreviations: BMD, bone mineral density; CKD, chronic kidney disease; min, minimum; max, maximum; n, number; SD, standard deviation; YAM, young adult mean.