Factors influencing quality of life in Moroccan postmenopausal women with osteoporotic vertebral fracture assessed by ECOS 16 questionnaire

Table 4 Patients' characteristics influencing total ECOS-16 score in univariate and multivariate analysis.

	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
	β	*95% CI*	p	β	*95% CI*	p
Age	0.23	0.01 to 0.03	0.005	-0.003	-0.01 to -0.001	0.7
BMI	0.16	0.09 to 0.43	0.02	0.17	0.08 to 0.35	0.2
Marital status
Married	ref			ref
Single	0.16	0.04 to 0.28	0.7	0.06	0.02 to 0.07	0.3
Widow	0.47	0.01 to 0.62	0.2	0.44	0.01 to 0.67	0.07
Divorced	0.54	0.03 to 0.71	0.5	0.36	0.21 to 1.53	0.1
Parity	0.06	0.003 to 0.11	0.02	-0.02	-0.35 to -0.01	0.5
Educational level
No formal education	ref			ref.
Primary school	-0.74	-1.03 to – 0.45	< 0.001	-0.51	-0.82 to – 0.19	0.03
Secondary school	-0.64	-1.01 to – 0.45	0.01	-0.49	-0.85 to 0.12	0.009
High school	-0.30	-0.67 to – 0.12	0.01	-0.35	-0.40 to – 0.29	0.02
Comorbid condition	0.24	0.01 to 0.5	0.05	0.09	0.03 to1.13	0.5
History of peripheral fracture	0.65	0.30 to 0.99	< 0.001	0.54	0.11 to 0.92	0.006
Vertebral fracture	0.42	0.14 to 0.69	0.003	0.29	0.09 to0.52	0.03

Adjusting on age, BMI, marital status, parity, educational level, comorbid conditions, and history of peripheral fracture.
ref = Categorical of reference

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