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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 8.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2010 Dec 16;22(3):829–837. doi: 10.1007/s00198-010-1465-1

Table 4.

HR for age, bone density and clinical risk factors to predict fracture outcomes

Major osteoporotic fractures
Hip fractures
HR 95% CI p HR 95% CI p
Sex (women vs. men) 1.20 0.96–1.50 0.10 0.55 0.37–0.82 <0.01
Age (per 10 years) 1.33 1.20–1.46 <0.001 2.02 1.65–2.48 <0.001
BMI (per 5 kg/m2) 1.14 1.04–1.24 <0.01 1.00 0.82–1.20 0.97
Prior fragility fracture 1.61 1.31–1.97 <0.001 1.89 1.31–2.75 <0.001
Parental hip fracture 0.92 0.69–1.23 0.58 1.14 0.67–1.96 0.63
Rheumatoid arthritis 1.63 0.81–3.25 0.17 1.50 0.43–5.17 0.52
Corticosteroid use 0.72 0.37–1.38 0.32 0.71 0.24–2.07 0.53
Smoking 1.03 0.81–1.30 0.81 1.51 0.98–2.31 0.06
Alcohol use >2 U/day 0.80 0.43–1.52 0.50 0.82 0.26–2.61 0.73
Femoral neck T-score (per SD decrease) 1.56 1.42–1.71 <0.001 1.96 1.62–2.37 <0.001

Data are from Cox proportional hazards models