Accurate assessment of hip fracture risk is very important to prevent hip fracture and to monitor the effect of a treatment. A subject-specific QCT-based finite element model was constructed to assess hip fracture risk at the critical locations of femur during the single-leg stance and the sideways fall. The aim of this study was to improve the prediction of hip fracture risk by introducing a n...

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of depression and antidepressant medications on hip fracture. The database of the Taiwan National Health Insurance with medical records of more than 1,000,000 individuals was searched for patients who had hip fracture with or without depression from 1998 to 2009. Patients with the following conditions were excluded: hip fracture due to cancer ...

BACKGROUND We examined the effects of hip fracture on mortality, entry into long-term institutional care, and new evidence of poverty. We estimate of the proportion of hip fracture patients who require not just short-term rehabilitation but who become dependent on long-term institutional care, and the risk of becoming newly dependent on Medicaid or eligible for low-income subsidies following hi...

BACKGROUND Hip fractures are a major public health problem. Patients who have suffered a hip fracture have an increased risk of a subsequent hip fracture. This study examines the incidence ofsecondhip fractures and attempts to identify underlying risk factors. OBJECTIVE To examine the incidence ofsecond hip fractures in osteoporotic patients at Chiang Mai University Hospital and to identify r...

OBJECTIVES to evaluate orthogeriatric and nurse-led fracture liaison service (FLS) models of post-hip fracture care in terms of impact on mortality (30 days and 1 year) and second hip fracture (2 years). SETTING Hospital Episode Statistics database linked to Office for National Statistics mortality records for 11 acute hospitals in a region of England. POPULATION patients aged over 60 years...

Each year, millions of adults worldwide suffer a hip fracture [1,2]. Hip fractures primarily occur in the elderly and have devastating consequences. A hip fracture initiates inflammatory, hypercoagulable, stress and catabolic states that can cause medical complications (e.g., myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, sepsis, stroke and life-threatening and major bleeding) [3,4]. The...

Hip fractures are the most costly of osteoporotic fractures, but little is known about their epidemiology in the Middle East. Hip fracture patients and controls with osteoarthritis admitted to our institution from 1992 to 2002 were studied. Information on gender, age, type of fracture, comorbid conditions, and medications use was obtained. The mean age for hip fracture patients (n = 274) was 72...

BACKGROUND Currently it is uncertain how to define osteoporosis and who to treat after a hip fracture. There is little to support the universal treatment of all such patients but how to select those most in need of treatment is not clear. In this study we have compared cortical and trabecular bone status between patients with spinal fractures and those with hip fracture with or without spinal f...

OBJECTIVES To examine associations between exposure to various subgroups of antipsychotic drugs and risk of hip fracture in older adults. DESIGN Nationwide cohort study. SETTING Norway, 2005-2010. PARTICIPANTS Everyone living in Norway born before 1945 (N = 906,422). MEASUREMENTS Information was obtained on all prescriptions of antipsychotic drugs dispensed from 2004 to 2010 (Norwegian ...

BACKGROUND Fat mass, which is a major component of body weight, is directly related to bone mineral density and reduced fracture risk. It is not known whether abdominal fat is associated with hip fracture. The present study was designed to examine the association between abdominal fat and hip fracture in women and men aged 60+ years. METHODS This was a nested case-control study with one fract...