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. 2017 Jul 31;114(33):8722–8727. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1704460114

Table 1.

Patient characteristics for bisphosphonate-treated atypical fracture, bisphosphonate-treated typical fracture, bisphosphonate-treated nonfracture, bisphosphonate-naïve typical fracture, and bisphosphonate-naïve nonfracture groups

Characteristic +BIS Atypical +BIS Typical +BIS Nonfx −BIS Typical −BIS Nonfx
No. 12 10 5 11 12
% female 100 100 100 100 100
Age, y, mean (SD) 72 (9.1) 81 (12) 75 (11) 83 (4.9) 71 (5.8)
Fracture morphology 12 atypical subtrochanteric 9 intertrochanteric N/A 10 intertrochanteric N/A
1 spiral subtrochanteric 1 spiral subtrochanteric
Bisphosphonate treatment duration, y, mean (SD) 8.2 (3.0) 7.7 (5.0) 6.4 (3.5) N/A N/A
Bisphosphonate treatment type 10 alendronate 5 alendronate 2 alendronate N/A N/A
2 ibandronate 5 risedronate 3 risedronate

N/A, not applicable.