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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Osteoporos Rep. 2016 Dec;14(6):327–336. doi: 10.1007/s11914-016-0333-0

Table 1.

Summary of key fracture epidemiologic studies in type 1 diabetes

Year published Authors Data source/country Sex and sge of participants Sample size Fracture outcome Statistical measure of risk T1D-related fracture risk1
1999 Forsen et al. [4] NTHS/Norway M/F 50–74 years T1D: 51
No DM: 26,895
Incident hip Relative Risk M: 4 (0.6,28.2)
F: 5.7 (1.8,17.9)
2001 Nicodemus et al. [5] IWHS/USA F 55–69 years T1D: 47
No DM: 30,377
Incident hip Relative Risk F: 12.3 (5.1,29.7)
2005 Miao et al. [6] Swedish Inpatient Register/Sweden M/F < 65 years T1D: 24,605
No DM: not stated
Incident hip Standardized Hospitalization Ratio M: 7.6 (5.9,9.6)
F: 9.8 (7.3,12.9)
2005 Vestergaard, et al.[7] NHDR/Denmark M/F all ages Fracture: 124,655
No fracture: 373,962
Fracture: 10,530
No fracture: 31,535
incident, all sites
incident hip
Odds Ratio M/F: 1.9 (1.8,2.1)
M/F 1. (1.3,2.2)
2006 Janghorbani, et al. [8] Nurse Health Study/USA F ≥ 30 years T1D: 292
No DM: 101,343
Incident hip Relative Risk F: 7.1 (4.4,11.4)
2006 Ahmed, et al. [9] Tromso Study/Norway M/F ≥ 25 years T1D: 81
No DM: 26,704
Incident non-vertebral Relative Risk M: 3.1 (1.3,7.4)
F: 3 (0.98,1.4)
Incident Hip M: 17.8 (5.6,56.8)
F: 8.6 (1.1, 56.5)
2013 Hothersall et al. [10] SCI-DC/Scotland M/F 20–84 years T1D: 21,033
No DM: 3.6 M
Incident hip Incident Rate Ratio M: 3.3 (2.5,4.3)
F: 3.5 (2.8,4.6)
2014 Fraser et al.[11] CaMos/Canada M/F > 50 years T1D: 98
No DM: 7147
Incident atraumatic, all sites Hazard Ratio M/F: 2.5 (1.6-3.9)
2014 Liao et al. [12•] TNHIRD/Taiwan M/F ≥ 20 years T1D: 2992
No DM: 64,942
Incident, all sites Hazard Ratio M/F: 1.2 (1.1,1.4)
2015 Weber et al. [13••] THIN/United Kingdom M/F < 90 years T1D: 30,394
No DM: 303,872
Incident, all sites Hazard Ratio M: 1.6 (1.5,1.7)
F: 1.7 (1.6,1.8)
Incident hip M: 2.4 (1.9,2.9)
F: 2.3 (2,2.7)
1

M/F denotes males and females grouped together for analysis; 95 % confidence intervals displayed in parenthesis; unadjusted outcomes reported if both unadjusted and adjusted outcomes are provided in literature

CaMos Canadian Multicenter Osteoporosis Study, DM diabetes mellitus, IWHS Iowa Women's Health Study, M million, NHDR National Hospital Discharge Register, NTHS Nord Trondelag Health Survey, SCI-DC Scottish Care Information-Diabetes Collaboration Database, THIN The Health Improvement Network TNHIRD, Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database