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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Bone Miner Res. 2017 Mar 27;32(6):1182–1193. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.3094

Table 4b.

Risk of incidence of all types of fractures as a function of phosphate levels categorized in quintiles in men from MrOS

Men
P levels1 mean (range) events/no risk HR2,3(95% CI) p
2.6 (1.8–2.8) 188/1085 1.00 (reference)
2.9 (2.8–3.0) 206/1081 1.14 (0.94–1.39) 0.194
3.2 (3.1–3.3) 190/1081 1.06 (0.87–1.30) 0.558
3.4 (3.3–3.5) 213/1083 1.23 (1.01–1.49) 0.040
3.8 (3.5–6.8) 249/1079 1.59 (1.32–1.93) <0.001
p trend <0.001
1

P levels expressed in mg/dL

2

Hazard ratios are age, BMI, smoking, site and race adjusted; first quintile was set as reference

3

Hazard ratios are derived from Cox models