Osteoporosis

Black women have lower fracture risk at all BMD levels than white women

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 23rd, 2005

According to a report by University of Pittsburgh epidemiologists, "Black women have a lower rate of fracture than white women, but whether bone mineral density (BMD) predicts fracture risk as well in black women as it does in white women is not established."

J.A. Cauley and colleagues therefore examined "the association between BMD and incident nonspinal fractures in older black women and white women" in a "prospective cohort study of baseline data collected from 1986 through 1990 (7,334 white women aged 67-99 years) and from 1996 through 1998 (636 black women aged 65-94 years) at four U.S. clinical centers in the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures."

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-23)

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