Prevalent vertebral fractures among urban-dwelling Chinese postmenopausal women : a population-based, randomized-sampling, cross-sectional study

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In this population-based, cross-sectional study, we investigated vertebral fracture (VF) prevalence among Chinese postmenopausal women. We found 14.7% of population had VFs, which increased with age. Age ≥ 65 years, hip fracture, and densitometric osteoporosis were significantly associated with VFs. The prevalence of osteoporosis was remarkably high.

PURPOSE: To investigate VF prevalence among Chinese postmenopausal women in this population-based, randomized-sampling, cross-sectional study.

METHODS: The investigator obtained lists of women from communities. Randomization was performed using SAS programming based on age group in each region. Postmenopausal women aged ≥ 50 years in the urban community were included. The investigator interviewed subjects to collect self-reported data and measured BMD. Spine radiographs were adjudicated by Genant's semi-quantitative method. VFs were defined as fractures of at least one vertebra classified by Genant's score 1-3 and were analyzed using descriptive statistics.

RESULTS: A total of 31,205 women listed for randomized sampling from 10 Tier-3 hospitals at 5 regions. Of 2634 women in the full analysis set, 14.7% (388/2634, 95% CI: 13.4, 17.1) had prevalent VFs. VF prevalence increased with age (Cochran-Armitage test p < 0.0001) and was significantly higher in women aged ≥ 65. VF prevalence did not differ between North (14.4%, 95% CI: 12.5, 16.4) and South China (15.1%, 95% CI: 13.3, 17.1). In women with no prior VFs, prevalent VFs were 12.4% (95% CI: 11.2, 13.7). Age ≥ 65 years (OR: 2.57, 95% CI: 1.91, 3.48), hip fracture (OR: 2.28, 95% CI: 1.09, 4.76), and densitometric osteoporosis (OR: 2.52, 95% CI: 1.96, 3.22) were significantly associated with prevalent VFs. Prevalence of osteoporosis was 32.9% measured by BMD and 40.8% using NOF/IOF clinical diagnosis criteria.

CONCLUSION: VFs are prevalent among Chinese postmenopausal women who were ≥ 50 years and community-dwelled. Osteoporosis prevalence is remarkable when fragile fractures were part of clinical diagnosis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Archives of osteoporosis - 17(2022), 1 vom: 07. Sept., Seite 120

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xia, Weibo [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Lv, Jinhan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zhenlin [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Wen [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Zhongjian [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jianting [VerfasserIn]
He, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Jian [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Zhenming [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Fang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jue [VerfasserIn]

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Community-dwelling
Journal Article
Osteoporosis
Postmenopausal women
Prevalent vertebral fractures
Randomized sampling
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 09.09.2022

Date Revised 17.03.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11657-022-01158-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM345872886