Characteristics of patients who were hospitalized for a proximal humerus fracture or a distal forearm fracture and had no prevalent osteoporosis treatment, by treatment group (N = 445).

Data are means ± SD or number of patients (% of total)
1 The ALD status identifies patients with a major chronic disease coded according to the International Classification of Disease, 10th version classification system (ICD-10), as declared by their general practitioner and approved by a physician employed by the National Healthcare Insurance
2 The CMU status identifies patients with low income
3 Long term corticotherapy defined as at least six reimbursements for oral or injectable corticosteroids in the year preceding the fracture
* p<0.001 with χ² test.
Characteristics of patients who were hospitalized for a proximal humerus fracture or a distal forearm fracture and had no prevalent osteoporosis treatment, by treatment group (N = 445).