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Bone Fractures Among Former College Athletes Compared With Nonathletes in the Menopausal and Postmenopausal Years

Center for Population Studies, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Center for Population Studies, Department of Population Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health; Department of Surgery, New England Baptist Hospital; Department of Surgery, New England Deaconess Hospital; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham-Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Data are presented on the prevalence (lifetime occurence) of bone fractures among 5398 college alumnae, 2622 former college athletes, and 2776 nonathletes, ranging in age from 21 to 80 years. As expected from increased physical activity, the former college athletes in each age decade from 20 to 70 years and over reported a higher lifetime occurence (i.e., at any age up to the time of reporting) of bone fractures of all types, than that of nonathletes (40.5 versus 31.9%, P <.001). However, when athletic activity was accounted for, the former college athletes were at no greater risk of fractures in the menopausal years than were nonathletes. Among women 60 years and over who were fracture-free up to age 40, the rate for any fracture at age 40 or over was 29% for former college athletes compared with 32% for nonathletes, a nonsignificant difference.

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