Table 4.

The incidence of forearm and humeral fractures in women predicted from the epidemiology in Malmo (see methods) and that observed in the present study with 95% confidence intervals (CI). The observation in bold denote a difference between observed and predicted estimates

Age (years)	Forearm			Humerus
	Predicted	Observed	95% CI	Predicted	Observed	95% CI
50–54	447	412	324–516	133	99	59–156
55–59	671	485	382–607	188	198	134–281
60–64	590	705	558–879	132	250	166–361
65–69	539	617	443–838	274	166	83–296
70–74	606	560	397–769	257	324	203–491
75–79	407	479	304–720	247	354	206–568
80–84	468	407	203–729	220	296	128–584
85–89	278	397	128–925	227	238	49–695