Table 3 Prevalence of osteoporosis in the elders of the world by different continents
Continents | Number of articles | Sample size | I2 | Publication bias | Prevalence % (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Begg and Mazumdar Test | Egger’s test | |||||
Asia | 31 | 65,381 | 99.06 | 0.284 | 0.298 | 24.3 (95% CI: 20.9–28.1) |
Europe | 5 | 6835 | 99.8 | 1.000 | 0.831 | 16.7 (95% CI: 10.1–29) |
America | 4 | 6911 | 96.5 | 0.308 | 0.410 | 11.5 (95% CI: 5.4–19.1) |