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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2017 Mar 18;28(6):1979–1988. doi: 10.1007/s00198-017-3996-1

Table 3.

Prevalence of osteoporosis or low bone mass at femur neck or lumbar spine by sex and survey period Adults age 50+ years, NHANES 2005–2010 and 2013–2014

Femur neck Lumbar spine

Osteoporosis Low bone mass Osteoporosis Low bone mass

Unadjusted Multivariate adjusted1 Unadjusted Multivariate adjusted1 Unadjusted Multivariate adjusted1 Unadjusted Multivariate adjusted1

n Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE
Women
2005–06 701 9.5a 1.0 8.3 0.8 49.6 2.3 47.8 2.4 11.2 1.0 10.5 1.0 35.0 1.7 34.1 1.8
2007–08 1081 6.1a,b 0.8 6.1 0.8 46.0a 1.4 45.5a,b 1.3 8.9 0.9 8.9 0.8 37.4 1.7 37.5 1,6
2009–10 1069 7.6 0.7 8.5 1.0 48.9 1.3 49.8a,c 1.3 10.4 0.9 11.1 1.0 36.5 2.2 36.9 2.3
2013–14 1029 9.8b 1.1 9.9 1.1 52.6a 1.5 53.4b,c 1.3 11.6 1.0 11.6 1.2 35.9 1.7 36.2 1.7
 p linear 0.57 0.10 0.16 0.01 0.51 0.27 0.81 0.49
 p quadratic 0.003 0.06 0.04 0.06 0.07 0.30 0.42 0.28
Men
2005–06 825 2.0 0.4 2.0 0.4 30.3 1.5 29.1 1.5 2.8 0.8 2.8 0.7 17.8 1.4 17.6 1.4
2007–08 1148 1.4 0.4 1.5 0.4 27.3 1.2 27.4a 1.3 2.4 0.4 2.3 0.4 18.0 1.9 17.9 2.0
2009–10 1129 1.5 0.4 1.4 0.4 29.9 2.0 29.8 1.5 3.2 0.7 3.2 0.6 19.1 1.9 18.6 1.7
2013–14 972 2.5 0.5 2.5 0.5 32.1 1.3 33.0a 1.4 3.6 0.7 3.9 0.8 19.2 1.8 19.5 1.8
 p linear 0.36 0.42 0.20 0.03 0.33 0.20 0.49 0.38
 p quadratic 0.052 0.042 0.09 0.09 0.55 0.37 0.98 0.86

SE=standard error.

Means and percents within sex sharing common letter superscripts differ significantly, p<0.05

1

Adjusted for age, race/Hispanic origin, body mass index, smoking, milk intake, and self-reported physician’s diagnosis of osteoporosis.

2

Overall trend was statistically significant, but no pairwise difference was statistically significant.