Prevalence of vertebral fracture in elderly men and women with osteopenia.

The objective of our cross-sectional, not population-based, observational study was to determine the prevalence of patients with osteopenia in relation to bone mineral density (BMD) and vertebral fractures and to identify risk factors for vertebral fractures above the osteoporotic BMD T-score threshold of -2.5. A total of 698 consecutive hospitalized and ambulatory white patients with T-scores between -1.