Fragility Fracture
Micro computed tomography assessment of human femoral trabecular bone for two disease groups (fragility fracture and coxarthrosis): Age and gender related effects on the microstructure
... or fragility fracture ...the fragility fracture group was composed by twenty three females and seven ...the fragility fracture group was 81 ± 6 (females) and 78 ± 6 (males) ...
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Risk of fragility fracture among patients with gout and the effect of urate-lowering therapy.
... We found that ULT had neither beneficial nor adverse effect on the long term risk of fragility fracture. The existing literature on the topic is conflicting (5, 6, 23) and, unlike our study, does not ...
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Do patients perceive a link between a fragility fracture and osteoporosis?
... a fragility fracture is a predictor of future fractures independent of bone density ...prior fracture after the age of 40, but we did not ascertain whether prior fractures were also fragility ...
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Factors influencing diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis after a fragility fracture among postmenopausal women in Asian countries: a retrospective study
... fragility fracture. Patients were asked “Have you ever been told that you have osteoporosis?” If they answered “yes”, they were asked when they were told they had osteoporosis (in relation to the index ...
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Increased fragility fracture risk in Korean women who snore: a 10 year population based prospective cohort study
... Fragility fractures are a major and increasingly common cause of morbidity, and they pose a considerable burden on healthcare systems [1]. Moreover, most osteoporosis- related fractures can lead to significant ...
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Vitamin D status in non supplemented postmenopausal Taiwanese women with osteoporosis and fragility fracture
... confirmed fragility fracture either admitted to hospital or from outpatient clinics and due to exclusion of patients taking vitamin D supplementation regularly (2800 IU vitamin D per week or 400 IU vitamin ...
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One-year mortality in displaced intracapsular hip fractures and associated risk: a report of Chinese-based fragility fracture registry
... the Fragility Fracture Registry (FFR, ...of fragility hip fracture patients who were admitted during 2012 to six major public hospi- tals under the management of the Hospital Authority of Hong ...
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Original Article Estrogen receptor alpha gene polymorphisms contribute to fragility fracture susceptibility in elderly postmenopausal women with heart failure
... and fracture risk remains con- troversial and ...of fragility frac- ture associated with the variant genotypes of rs2234693 was more pronounced in younger subjects (<67 years) than in older ...for ...
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Clinical assessment tools identify functional deficits in fragility fracture patients
... comparing fracture patients to control ...the fracture group when compared to the control group (P = ...of fragility fracture had lower scores on the vertical component of the WBB Torso Twist ...
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Bone mineral density measurement and osteoporosis treatment after a fragility fracture in older adults: regional variation and determinants of use in Quebec
... the fracture, was negatively correlated with BMD testing for women, but was positively correlated with future OP ...a fragility fracture in men after ...
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Bone mineral density testing after fragility fracture
... Clinical fracture risk assessment requires a BMD test result, which is often unavailable when patients older than 50 years of age are first seen by their FPs follow- ing fragility ...
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Prediction of absolute risk of fragility fracture at 10 years in a Spanish population: validation of the WHO FRAX ™ tool in Spain
... of fragility fracture at 10 years in a Spanish population, a predictive validation study of the tool will be carried ...to fracture risk ...clinical fracture risk ...
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Hip and fragility fracture prediction by 4 item clinical risk score and mobile heel BMD: a women cohort study
... hip fracture (HF) and fragility fracture (FF) by prospectively using the practical clinical 4-item FRAMO Index, with results similar to our previous ...prior fragility fracture, and ...
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Exploring the relationship between bone density and severity of distal radius fragility fracture in women
... Our study has limitations that should be considered when interpreting the findings. The number of studied fracture patients is only 110. However, compared with previous studies, the number of patients is in the ...
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International Fragility Fracture Network Delphi consensus statement on the principles of anaesthesia for patients with hip fracture
... A three-stage Delphi process was used to reach consensus. During February and March, 2017 (stage 1), the 28 Committee members were asked to contribute by e-mail ~10-15 ‘broad’ ‘principles that every hospital anaesthetic ...
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International Fragility Fracture Network Delphi consensus statement on the principles of anaesthesia for patients with hip fracture
... hip fracture; what mode of anaesthetic (spinal/general) should be preferred; and should pre-operative laboratory tests be ordered by protocol or ...hip fracture anaesthesia in (their) country or ...
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Bone Mineral Density Reporting Underestimates Fracture Risk in Ontario
... hospital fracture clinic participating in the Fracture Clinic Screening ...250 fragility fracture pa- tients ...a fragility fracture, were not on antiresorptive or other ...
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The osteoporosis care gap in Canada
... and fracture clinics [18] in major urban centres with access to bone densitometry and osteoporo- sis ...the fracture clinic study, the most common type of fracture was wrist fracture ...with ...
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Tibolone increases bone mineral density but also relapse in breast cancer survivors: LIBERATE trial bone substudy
... Current American Society of Clinical Oncology and UK guidelines recommend bisphosphonate therapy for women with a T score of 2.0 or more. To prevent the majority of fractures would require all women with T scores greater ...
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An evaluation of fracture liaison services in the detection and management of osteoporotic fragility fractures : a narrative review
... a fracture occurs. Fragility fractures are defined as those which occur from low-impact mechanical forces that would not normally result in fracture; these are due to low bone density and structural ...
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