Depression, falls, and osteoporotic fractures

Epidemiology of falls and osteoporotic fractures: a systematic review

BACKGROUND AND METHODS Fractures in elderly populations result from the combination of falls and osteoporosis. We report a systematic review of studies indexed in PubMed reporting annual rates of low-trauma falls and associated osteoporotic fractures among older community-dwelling people (age ≥ 50 years). An osteoporotic fracture was defined as either a fracture resulting from a low-impact fall...

Objective measures of physical activity, fractures and falls: the osteoporotic fractures in men study.

OBJECTIVES To determine the association between objectively measured physical activity (PA), fractures, and falls. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study. SETTING Six U.S. clinical sites. PARTICIPANTS Two thousand seven hundred thirty-one men with a mean age of 79. MEASUREMENTS Total and active energy expenditure (EE) and minutes per day spent in sedentary and moderate intensity activities we...

Calcium and osteoporotic fractures

Ca is a main component of bone and 99 % of body Ca is found in the skeleton. In addition to being of great importance for the structural properties of bone, bone Ca is the major reservoir for body Ca. Ca is essential for numerous metabolic functions, and to maintain these, serum Ca is strictly regulated. Ca balance is determined by the amount of Ca in the diet (supplements included), the effici...

Frailty and risk of falls, fracture, and mortality in older women: the study of osteoporotic fractures.

BACKGROUND A standard phenotype of frailty was associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes including mortality in a recent study of older adults. However, the predictive validity of this phenotype for fracture outcomes and across risk subgroups is uncertain. METHODS To determine whether a standard frailty phenotype was independently associated with risk of adverse health outcomes in...

Diabetes, falls and fractures.