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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2020 Mar 16;31(6):1059–1067. doi: 10.1007/s00198-019-05274-2

Table 2. Baseline bone mineral density Z-scores according to prior fracture status.

No fracture High-trauma fracture Low-trauma fracture
Mean (95% CI) Mean (95% CI) Mean (95% CI)
Any fracture N=64,626 N=858 N=14758
   Femur neck 0.06 (0.06:0.07) -0.33 (-0.39:-0.26) *** -0.25 (-0.27:-0.24) ***
   Total hip 0.26 (0.25:0.27) -0.24 (-0.31:-0.16) *** -0.16 (-0.18:-0.14) ***
   Lumbar spine 0.27 (0.25:0.28) -0.18 (-0.29:-0.08) *** -0.19 (-0.22:-0.17) ***

Any major osteoporotic fracture N=68,095 N=485 N=11,662
   Femur neck 0.05 (0.04:0.06) -0.41 (-0.49:-0.32) *** -0.28 (-0.29:-0.26) ***
   Total hip 0.25 (0.24:0.25) -0.33 (-0.43:-0.23) *** -0.19 (-0.21:-0.17) ***
   Lumbar spine 0.25 (0.24:0.26) -0.25 (-0.38:-0.12) *** -0.24 (-0.27:-0.21) ***

Hip fracture N=78,704 N=206 N=1332
   Femur neck 0.01 (0.01:0.02) -0.74 (-0.88:-0.60) *** -0.77 (-0.82:-0.73) ***
   Total hip 0.20 (0.19:0.21) -0.79 (-0.94:-0.63) *** -0.87 (-0.93:-0.82) ***
   Lumbar spine 0.19 (0.18:0.20) -0.42 (-0.63:-0.21) *** -0.41 (-0.51:-0.32) ***

Humerus fracture N=77,872 74 N=2296
   Femur neck 0.01 (0.00:0.02) -0.49 (-0.67:-0.31) *** -0.27 (-0.31:-0.23) ***
   Total hip 0.19 (0.18:0.20) -0.37 (-0.58:-0.15) ** -0.16 (-0.21:-0.11) ***
   Lumbar spine 0.19 (0.18:0.20) -0.06 (-0.42:0.30) -0.22 (-0.28:-0.15) ***

Forearm fracture N=73,318 N=293 N=6631
   Femur neck 0.02 (0.02:0.03) -0.27 (-0.37:-0.17) *** -0.23 (-0.25:-0.21) ***
   Total hip 0.21 (0.20:0.22) -0.16 (-0.29:-0.04) *** -0.12 (-0.14:-0.09) ***
   Lumbar spine 0.22 (0.21:0.23) -0.35 (-0.51:-0.18) *** -0.26 (-0.30:-0.23) ***

Post hoc Tukey test vs No fracture, * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001. High-trauma vs Low-trauma all non-significant. Number with prior high-trauma clinical vertebral fractures insufficient for analysis.