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While nonoperative management is standard, surgical stabilisation of rib fractures (SSRF) is increasingly performed in selected elderly patients despite concerns about frailty and comorbidities. Although osteoporosis significantly increases fracture risk, rib fractures have not traditionally been categorised as fragility fractures.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study retrospectively evaluated bone mineral density (BMD), represented by L1 vertebral Hounsfield units (HU) and correlated clinical outcomes in patients with rib fractures from trauma. A control group of 100 age\u2010 and sex\u2010matched nontrauma patients was included for comparison.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Overall, trauma patients exhibited higher mean L1 HU values, 125.0, compared to controls, 105.5 (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20093\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>\u22125<\/jats:sup>). Within the patients sustaining rib fractures, the low\u2010energy trauma group had lower mean L1 HU values (112.6) than those from high\u2010energy trauma (133, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.002), suggesting a link between lower BMD and susceptibility to rib fractures. Low BMD (L1 HU\u2009\u2264\u2009110) was not associated with worse clinical outcomes such as hospital length of stay, analgesia requirements or fracture healing, whether managed operatively or nonoperatively. Low BMD did not affect rib union post\u2010SSRF, with no hardware failures. 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