Elevated Incidence of Fractures in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients on Glucocorticoid-Sparing Immunosuppressive Regimens

Table 1

Characteristics of organ transplant recipients and patients with fractures.

Patient features	Kidney/liver	Kidney/pancreas	Liver	Pancreas
Number of patients	19	47	92	17
Gender (% female)	52.6	46.8	35	58.8
Age at transplant in years (mean ± SD) (𝑛)	54.9±7.5	43.9±8.2	53.2±10.3	41.1±7.3
Number with fractures	4	15	22	7
Men	1/9	7/25	16/60	1/7
	11%	28%	27%	14%
All women	3/10	8/22	6/32	6/10
	30%	32%	19%	60%
Postmenopausal women**	2/10	5/22	5/22	0/1
	20%	23%	23%	0%

^∗∗Menopause assumed if age at fracture ≥50 years.