OBJECTIVES Fish is rich in nutrients that are favorable to bone health, but limited data are available regarding the relationship between fish intake and hip fractures. Our study examined the association between habitual fish intake and risk of hip fractures. METHODS A case-control study was performed between June 2009 and June 2012 in Guangdong Province, China. Five hundred and eighty-one hi...

INTRODUCTION: Hip fracture is the most serious complication of osteoporosis. In order to develop and target prevention strategies, it is essential to find those at increased risk of hip fracture. Decreased bone mineral density (BMD) in the proximal femur is associated with hip fracture risk, but majority of the fractures occur in patients without osteoporosis . Fracture risk is also affected by...

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Hip fractures entail a growing economic burden on the health care system. Study is warranted to further our understanding of its patterns and to create increased awareness in health care providers and the public. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data was extracted from the ongoing National Orthopaedic Registry of Malaysia (NORM), for the period June 2008 till December 2009. Pati...

Fractures of the proximal femur are one of the greatest challenges facing the medical community, constituting a heavy socioeconomic burden worldwide. Controversy exists regarding the optimal treatment for patients with unstable trochanteric proximal femoral fractures. The recognised treatment alternatives are extramedullary fixation usually with a sliding hip screw and intramedullary fixation w...

BACKGROUND physical activity is promoted for older women as a means of maintaining health and avoiding falls and fractures. Findings relating physical activity of older women to risk of falls and fracture are contradictory. The association between level of physical activity and prevalent and incident hip and wrist fractures was examined in a large representative sample of postmenopausal British...

My name is Arie van Vugt, I’ve more than thirty years experience in trauma surgery. I published my thesis in 1991; the subject was the treatment of intracapsular hip fractures with Dynamic Hip Screws. Later on, I became chair of the guideline committee for the treatment of hip fractures in elderly people in the Netherlands, a cooperation of the Dutch Surgical Society and the Dutch Orthopaedic S...

Conclusions, page 4. Conclusions FRAX without BMD for major and hip fracture demonstrates a good discriminative capacity with the AUC ROC for Spanish women but its predictive capacity does not adjust well with the current algorithm leading to under diagnosis for major fracture and hip fractures. Simple models based on age or BMD alone predicted 10-year risk of major and hip osteoporotic fractur...

Femoral fractures are one of the most common types of fractures especially in the elderly. Therefore the fracture of the hip and femur is a global problem and not just concentrated in one country. The incidence of hip fractures world wide have been estimated to be 1.26 million in the 1990s and are predicted to increase to 2.6 million by 2025 and increase to 4.5 million by 2050. Some other estim...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the incidence of adverse events in elderly patients who required inpatient admission after sustaining an ankle fracture and to consider these data in relation to geriatric hip fracture and other geriatric patient admissions. METHODS A retrospective cohort study of patients admitted with an ankle fracture, a hip fracture, or any other diagnos...

Hip fractures are the most serious osteoporotic fracture at both an individual and population level. In the United States alone there are over 250,000 hip fractures each year (1), costing at least 5.4 billion dollars annually (2). About 20 percent of persons who fracture their hip are dead within a year (3, 4) and, of the survivors, many never regain their prefracture level of physical function...