Sex- and Age Group-Specific Fracture Incidence Rates Trends for Type 1 and 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Mohamad I. Nasser*, Annika Vestergaard Kvist, Peter Vestergaard, Richard Eastell, Andrea M. Burden, Morten Frost

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Abstract

The incidence of major osteoporotic fractures has declined in men and women in Western countries over the last two decades. Although fracture risk is higher in persons with diabetes mellitus, trends of fractures remain unknown in men and women with diabetes. We investigated the trends in fracture incidence rates (IRs) in men and women with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) in Denmark between 1997 and 2017. We identified men and women aged 18+ years who sustained a fracture (excluding skull and facial fractures) between 1997 and 2017 using the Danish National Patient Registry. We calculated sex-specific IRs of fractures per 10,000 person-years separately in persons with T1D, T2D, or without diabetes. Furthermore, we compared median IRs of the first 5 years (1997–2002) to the median IRs of the last 5 years (2012–2017). We identified 1,235,628 persons with fractures including 4863 (43.6% women) with T1D, 65,366 (57.5% women) with T2D, and 1,165,399 (54.1% women) without diabetes. The median IRs of fractures declined 20.2%, 19.9%, and 7.8% in men with T1D, T2D, and without diabetes, respectively (p-trend <0.05). The median IRs decreased 6.4% in women with T1D (p-trend = 0.35) and 25.6% in women with T2D (p-trend <0.05) but increased 2.3% in women without diabetes (p-trend = 0.08). Fracture IRs decreased in men with both diabetes types and only in women with T2D, highlighting the need for further attention behind the stable trend observed in women with T1D.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere10836
JournalJBMR Plus
Volume7
Issue number11
Number of pages10
ISSN2473-4039
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2023

Keywords

  • FRACTURES
  • INCIDENCE
  • TRENDS
  • TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS
  • TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS

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