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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 7.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2019 Jan 30;30(5):1033–1041. doi: 10.1007/s00198-019-04854-6

Table 5.

Calcium scores by sociodemographic and health measures

Total Men Women
N = 7749 95% CI N = 1260 95% CI N = 6489 95% CI
Sociodemographic variables
 Age
  <65 93.8 92.7 94.9 91.8 87.7 95.9 93.5 92.4 94.7
  65–74 93.3 92.2 94.4 89.4 85.5 93.3 93.6 92.4 94.8
  ≥ 75 91.4 90.1 92.7 87.1 82.9 91.4 92.2 90.7 93.6
 Race
  White 92.5 91.5 93.4 88.6 85.1 92.1 93.0 92.0 94.0
  Non-White 93.2 91.9 94.5 90.2 85.9 94.6 93.2 91.8 94.6
 Educational attainment
  Some completed high school 90.8 89.6 92.0 85.8 81.7 89.9 91.1 89.8 92.4
  Some completed college 93.5 92.5 94.6 90.1 86.2 94.0 93.8 92.7 94.9
  Beyond college 94.1 92.9 95.4 92.4 88.3 96.5 94.4 93.0 95.7
Health measures
 Self-reported health status
  Excellent 100.0 98.5 101.4 97.5 92.8 102.2 100.2 98.6 101.7
  Very good 95.6 94.5 96.8 91.2 87.1 95.3 96.1 94.9 97.3
  Good 92.4 91.3 93.4 88.3 84.5 92.1 92.9 91.7 94.0
  Fair 88.4 87.1 89.7 84.2 79.8 88.6 88.9 87.5 90.3
  Poor 87.7 85.6 89.9 86.0 80.4 91.5 87.4 85.0 89.8
 Prior DXA 93.4 92.5 94.4 88.7 85.3 92.1 93.5 92.5 94.5
 Prior hip fracture 92.5 91.4 93.7 90.0 86.0 94.0 92.6 91.4 93.8
 Self-reported osteoporosis 92.2 90.9 93.4 89.1 84.6 93.5 92.4 91.1 93.8
 Self-reported osteopenia 92.5 91.1 93.8 89.7 84.7 94.7 92.6 91.2 94.0
 Currently on osteoporosis treatment 93.0 91.6 94.5 86.7 81.3 92.0 93.6 92.1 95.1
 Discontinued osteoporosis treatment 93.7 92.3 95.0 88.0 82.6 93.3 94.0 92.7 95.4