Table 1.
Patients’ characteristics
| Age | |
| Median (years) | 53 |
| Range (years) | 19–83 |
| Sex | |
| Male | 45 (44.1%) |
| Female | 57 (55.9%) |
| Smoking history: | |
| Smoker | 17 (16.7%) |
| Ex-smoker | 18 (17.6%) |
| Never smoked | 67 (65.7%) |
| Underlying cancer: | |
| Multiple Myeloma | 37 (36.3%) |
| Breast | 25 (24.5%) |
| Lymphoma | 13 (12.7%) |
| Lung | 5 (4.9%) |
| Sarcoma | 4 (3.9%) |
| Prostate | 4 (3.9%) |
| Others | 14 (13.7%) |
| Timing of vertebral fracture: | |
| Initial presentation | 57 (55.9%) |
| Disease recurrence | 45 (44.1%) |
| Comorbidities: | |
| Hypertension | 32 (31.4%) |
| Diabetes mellitus | 26 (25.5%) |
| Cardiac disease | 19 (18.6%) |
| Pulmonary disease | 9 (8.8%) |
| Mobility: | |
| Ambulatory | 97 (95.1%) |
| Wheel-chair bound | 5 (4.9%) |
| Underlying etiology and site: | |
| No metastasis (Osteoporosis) | 24 (23.5%) |
| Vertebral metastasisa: | 78 (76.5%) |
| Cervical spines | 61 (78.2%) |
| Dorsal spines | 73 (93.6%) |
| Lumbar spines | 75 (96.2%) |
aTotal > 102, reflecting multiple sites