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Table 1 Baseline descriptive statistics of 15,776 women in an independent testing dataset stratified by Major osteoporotic fracture (MOF) status

From: Genome-wide polygenic risk score for major osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women using associated single nucleotide polymorphisms

Variable

Participants without MOF (n = 14,835)

Participants with MOF (n = 941)

P-value*

Age (years), mean (SD)

61.0 (7.07)

65.5 (7.95)

 < 0.001

Height (cm), mean (SD)

162 (5.99)

161 (6.23)

0.095

Weight (kg), mean (SD)

82.0 (17.6)

76.8 (16.4)

 < 0.001

Hip BMD (g/cm2), mean (SD)

0.927 (0.150)

0.840 (0.129)

 < 0.001

Spine BMD (g/cm2), mean (SD)

1.03 (0.175)

0.974 (0.167)

 < 0.001

GPS**, mean (SD)

31.8 (132)

76.0 (147)

 < 0.001

GRS***, mean (SD)

31.5 (0.420)

31.5 (0.366)

0.009

RACE/ethnicity, \(n (\%)\)

 American Indian or Alaskan Native

356 (2.5%)

46 (4.9%)

 < 0.001

 Asian or Pacific Islander

4 (< 1%)

8 (0.9%)

 Black or African-American

8742 (58.9%)

249 (26.5%)

 Hispanic/Latino

2761 (18.6%)

168 (17.9%)

 Not-Hispanic White

2957 (19.9%)

470 (49.8%)

Smoking, \(n (\%)\)

 Never Smoked

8672 (58.5%)

472 (50.2%)

 < 0.001

 Past Smoker

4833 (32.5%)

419 (44.5%)

 Current Smoker

1183 (8.0%)

50 (5.3%)

Rheumatoid Arthritis, \(n (\%)\)

1260 (8.5%)

150 (15.9%)

 < 0.001

Previous fragility fracture, \(n (\%)\)

426 (2.9%)

7 (0.7%)

 < 0.001

Previous osteoporosis, \(n (\%)\)

838 (5.6%)

118 (12.5%)

 < 0.001

Glucocorticoid use, \(n (\%)\)

30 (0.2%)

2 (0.2%)

1

Parental fracture history, \(n (\%)\)

1142 (7.7%)

142 (15.1%)

 < 0.001

  1. SD standard deviation
  2. *P-value was obtained by t-test for continuous variables and chi-square tests for the categorical variable
  3. **GPS: Genome-Wide Polygenic Risk Score (LDPred with ρ = 0.03)
  4. ***GRS: Genetic Risk Score was calculated based on 1103 eBMD-related SNPs