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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2016 Jul 17;93:230–231. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2016.07.011

Table 1.

Incidence of fragility fracture by ethnicity [1], and Incidence Rate Ratios relative to white ethnicity (adjusted for age and calendar year) in UK men and women aged 50 years or over, 1988 to 2012.

Women
Ethnicity Number fractures Rate (/10,000py) IRR*
White 71081 104.03 Ref
Other 496 70.98 0.81 (0.74, 0.89)
Mixed 77 50.12 0.63 (0.51, 0.79)
South Asian 491 44.46 0.57 (0.52, 0.62)
Black 149 22.26 0.28 (0.24, 0.33)
Men
Ethnicity Number fractures Rate (/10,000py) IRR*
White 25285 41.74 Ref
Other 170 28.88 0.76 (0.66, 0.89)
South Asian 289 26.85 0.73 (0.65, 0.82)
Mixed 22 17.37 0.49 (0.32, 0.74)
Black 88 15.75 0.42 (0.34, 0.51)
*

IRR=Incidence Rate Ratio from Poisson model, adjusting for age and calendar year.