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Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2020 Aug 3;32(2):261–269. doi: 10.1007/s00198-020-05528-4

Table 3:

Sensitivity and specificity for predicting incident vertebral fracture at any level according to trabecular vBMD and vertebral strength measured at L2 and estimated L2 from T8 measurements.

	Lumbar Trab vBMD (≤80 mg/cm²)	Lumbar_estimated Trab vBMD (≤80 mg/cm²)

Sensitivity	0.79 (0.71, 0.85)	0.76 (0.68, 0.83)
Specificity	0.47 (0.41, 0.54)	0.44 (0.38, 0.51)
Pos. Predictive Value	0.43 (0.37, 0.50)	0.41 (0.35, 0.47)
Neg. Predictive Value	0.81 (0.74, 0.87)	0.79 (0.71, 0.85)

	Lumbar Vertebral strength	Lumbar_estimated Vertebral Strength
	Women ≤ 4500 N	Women ≤ 4500 N
	Men ≤ 6500 N	Men ≤ 6500 N

Sensitivity	0.64 (0.56, 0.72)	0.63 (0.54, 0.71)
Specificity	0.60 (0.54, 0.66)	0.62 (0.56, 0.68)
Pos. Predictive Value	0.45 (0.38, 0.52)	0.45 (0.38, 0.53)
Neg. Predictive Value	0.77 (0.70, 0.82)	0.77 (0.70, 0.82)