2-9.
Reduce the proportion of adults with osteoporosis.
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2-9. | |
Reduce the proportion of adults with osteoporosis. |
Target: 8 percent.
Baseline: 10 percent of adults aged 50 years and older had osteoporosis as measured by low total femur bone mineral density (BMD) in 1988–94 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
Target setting method: 20 percent improvement.
Data source: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), CDC, NCHS.
|
Adults Aged 50 Years and Older, 1988–94 |
Osteoporosis |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
10 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
DSU |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Asian |
DNC |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DNC |
|
Black or African American |
7 |
|
White |
10 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
DSU |
|
Mexican American |
10 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
10 |
|
Black or African American |
7 |
|
White |
10 |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
16 |
|
Male |
3 |
|
Education level |
|
|
Less than high school |
11 |
|
High school graduate |
11 |
|
At least some college |
9 |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not
collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
Note: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.