A Radiographic Study on the Associations of Age and Prevalence of Vertebral Fractures with Abdominal Aortic Calcification in Japanese Postmenopausal Women and Men

Table 1

Characteristics of the study subjects.

	Characteristics	Range
Men/Women	24/377
Age (years)	73.8 $\pm$ 7.5	48–92
Number of subjects with a history of hip Fx	9
Number of subjects with $\ge$1 prevalent vertebral Fxs	221
Number of prevalent vertebral Fxs	1.50 $\pm$ 2.25	0–13
Spondylosis grade	1.36 $\pm$ 0.67	0–4
Severity of calcification (Indicated by the number of the vertebral bodies)	1.35 $\pm$ 1.87	0–7

Data are expressed as the mean $\pm$ standard deviation (SD). Fx: fractnre.