BACKGROUND Despite the reported high prevalence of osteoporosis in India, there have been no previous studies examining the risk factors for hip fracture in the Indian population. METHODS We carried out a case control investigation comprising 100 case subjects (57 women and 43 men) admitted with a first hip fracture into one of three hospitals across New Delhi. The 100 controls were age and s...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Hip fractures are common events that require intensive operative hospital care and a lengthy rehabilitation. The effect of hip fracture type on successful rehabilitation is not well known. The aim of this study is to model and compare the length of the care episodes between intra- and extracapsular hip fractures in Finland. MATERIAL AND METHODS 15544 hip fracture patients ...

Few studies have examined the relation between usual physical activity level and rate of hip fracture in older men or applied semiparametric methods from the causal inference literature that estimate associations without assuming a particular parametric model. Using the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly, the authors measured usual physical activity level at baseline (2000-2002) in 5,682 U...

BACKGROUND Conventional prehospital spine-assessment approaches based on low index of suspicion and mechanism of injury (MOI) result in the liberal application of spinal immobilization in trauma patients. A painful distracting injury (DI), such as a suspected hip fracture, historically has been a sufficient condition for immobilization, even in an elderly patient who suffers a simple fall from ...

The aim of the study was to assess the change in function and residential status four months after hip fracture in patients over 50 years of age and living independently at home at the time of fracture. All consecutive hip fracture patients treated at Oulu University Hospital during 1989--1999 were followed up. Data collection was done on standardized hip fracture forms, which were filled in at...

OBJECTIVE Asian populations are documenting rapid increases in the rates of diabetes and hip fracture, but there are no prospective data linking both diseases in Asian studies. We investigated this association among a cohort of Chinese in Singapore. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A prospective cohort of 63,257 Chinese in the Singapore Chinese Health Study, established between 1993 and 1998, was ...

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...

women and 0.4% of men aged 65 years or older experience a hip fracture. Patients who sustain a hip fracture face a high risk of serious complications (i.e., cardiovascular, venous thrombotic, infectious and hemorrhagic) that can result in a prolonged hospital stay and death: 30-day mortality is 9% among men and 5% among women. Among surviving patients who were community-dwelling before their fr...

BACKGROUND There are several potential risk factors in patients with a hip fracture for a higher rate of mortality that include: comorbid disorders, poor general health, age, male gender, poor mobility prior to injury, type of fracture, poor cognitive status, place of residence. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of potential risk factors for six-month mortality in hip fracture p...