Cross-sectional associations between prevalent vertebral fracture and pulmonary function in the sixth Tromsø study

Table 2 Associations between vertebral fracture and lung function

	Pulmonary function (mean (SD) or (SE))
	Men			Women
	No Vertebral fracture (n = 771)	Vertebral fracture (n = 121)	P	No vertebral fracture (n = 1079)	Vertebral fracture (n = 161)	P
FVC% predicted^a	98.2 (17.4)	97.2 (17.6)	0.522	101.2 (15.8)	102.2 (18.2)	0.475
FEV₁% predicted^a	88.9 (16.9)	85.6 (21.3)	0.055	93.0 (17.4)	93.3 (20.9)	0.842
FEV₁/FVC% predicted^a	90.6 (10.8)	87.4 (13.0)	0.003	92.0 (9.1)	90.6 (10.4)	0.083
Adjusted^b values	(n = 665)	(n = 105)		(n = 800)	(n = 104)
FVC (liter (SE))	4.22 (0.024)	4.23 (0.062)	0.951	2.98 (0.015)	3.01 (0.043)	0.560
FEV₁ (liter (SE))	3.08 (0.021)	3.05 (0.054)	0.650	2.21 (0.013)	2.24 (0.037)	0.408
FEV₁/FVC (SE)	0.73 (0.003)	0.72 (0.007)	0.291	0.74 (0.002)	0.74 (0.007)	0.557

The Tromsø Study 2007-08.
^aEquation from Langhammer et al. [27].
^bAdjusted for age, smoking habits, height, weight, physical inactivity, cardiovascular disease, lung disease, corticosteroids, hip BMD, hormones for menopause (women).

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