Muscle-skeletal fragility: data about elderly people who live in RSA in Calabria
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Results 54 people, 35 females, 19 males, average 80. 19 patients showed one fragility fracture. The risk of falls was absent in 21 patients, light in 3 patients, middle in 10 patients, high in 20 patients. The BMD was osteoporotic in 37 patients, osteopenia in 8 patients, normal in 6 patients. All patients showed ipo-vitaminosys D. we could make xray in 16 patients only. This was this was the result: 13 patients showed one vertebral fracture, at least.
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