Stacey A. Wainwright,
Lynn M. Marshall,
Kristine E. Ensrud,
Jane A. Cauley,
Dennis M. Black,
Teresa A. Hillier,
Marc C. Hochberg,
Molly T. Vogt,
Eric S. Orwoll for the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures Research Group
Bone and Mineral Research Unit, Department of Medicine (S.A.W., L.M.M., E.S.O) and Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (L.M.M.), Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239; Department of Medicine and Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota (K.E.E.), Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454; Section of General Internal Medicine, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center (K.E.E.), Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417; Departments of Epidemiology (J.A.C.) and Orthopedic Surgery (M.T.V.), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; University of California at San Francisco (D.M.B.), San Francisco, California 94105; Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research Northwest/Hawaii Division (T.A.H.), Portland, Oregon 97227; and Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Medical Service, Maryland VA Health Care System (M.C.H.), Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Stacey Wainwright, M.D., Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Mail Code CR113, Portland, Oregon 97239. E-mail: s_wainwright{at}comcast.net.
The proportion of fractures that occur in women without osteoporosishas not been fully described, and the characteristics of nonosteoporoticwomen who fracture are not well understood. We measured totalhip bone mineral density (BMD) and baseline characteristicsincluding physical activity, falls, and strength for 8065 womenaged 65 yr or older participating in the Study of OsteoporoticFractures and then followed these women for hip fracture forup to 5 yr after BMD measurement.
Among all participants, 17% had osteoporosis (total hip BMDT-score –2.5). Of the 243 women with incident hip fracture,54% were not osteoporotic at start of follow-up. Nonosteoporoticwomen who fractured were less likely than osteoporotic womenwith fracture to have baseline characteristics associated withfrailty. Nevertheless, among nonosteoporotic participants, severalcharacteristics increased fracture risk, including advancingage, lack of exercise in the last year, reduced visual contrastsensitivity, falls in the last year, prevalent vertebral fracture,and lower total hip BMD.
These findings call attention to the many older women who sufferhip fracture but do not have particularly low antecedent BMDmeasures and help begin to identify risk factors associatedwith higher bone density levels.
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