{"id":5789,"date":"2021-05-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2021-05-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-50-years-or-older-with-osteoporosis-by-race-and-hispanic-origin-united-states-2017-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/05\/14\/5789\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 50 Years or Older with Osteoporosis, by Race and Hispanic Origin \u2014 United States, 2017\u20132018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5791\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/mm7019a5-f.gif\" alt=\"mm7019a5-f\" width=\"440\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During 2017\u20132018, the age-adjusted prevalence of osteoporosis among adults aged 50 years or older was 12.6%.<\/p>\n<p>A lower percentage of non-Hispanic Black adults (6.8%) had osteoporosis compared with non-Hispanic White adults (12.9%), non-Hispanic Asian adults (18.4%), and Hispanic adults (14.7%).<\/p>\n<p>The observed differences among non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Asian, and Hispanic adults did not reach statistical significance.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sources:<\/b> Sarafrazi N, Wambogo EA, Shepherd JA. Osteoporosis or low bone mass in older adults: United States, 2017\u20132018. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data brief, no. 405. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db405.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db405.htm<\/a>; NCHS, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHNES) data, NHNES 2017\u20132018.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7019a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7019a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2017\u20132018, the age-adjusted prevalence of osteoporosis among adults aged 50 years or older was 12.6%. A lower percentage of non-Hispanic Black adults (6.8%) had osteoporosis compared with non-Hispanic White adults (12.9%), non-Hispanic Asian adults (18.4%), and Hispanic adults (14.7%). The observed differences among non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Asian, and Hispanic adults did not reach statistical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14337,63713,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}