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Does post acute care reduce the mortality of octogenarian and nonagenarian patients undergoing hip fracture surgery?

BMC Geriatrics
Background With the increasing number of elderly individuals worldwide, a greater number of people aged 80 years and older sustain fragility fracture due to osteopenia and osteoporosis.
Yu-Wei Chiang, Yu-Jun Chang, Hui-Jen Huang, Cheng-Pu Hsieh, Yueh-Hsiu Lu   +4 more
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Mortality in older adults following a fragility fracture: real-world retrospective matched-cohort study in Ontario

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2021
Background Recent studies are lacking reports on mortality after non-hip fractures in adults aged > 65. Methods This retrospective, matched-cohort study used de-identified health services data from the publicly funded healthcare system in Ontario, Canada,
Jacques P. Brown, Jonathan D. Adachi, Emil Schemitsch, Jean-Eric Tarride, Vivien Brown, Alan Bell, Maureen Reiner, Thiago Oliveira, Ponda Motsepe-Ditshego, Natasha Burke, Lubomira Slatkovska   +10 more
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An Important Cause of Hip Pain in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Femoral Fragility Fracture

Türk Osteoporoz Dergisi
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common chronic systemic inflammatory disease. In RA, systemic inflammation, autoantibodies, glucocorticoid use, and physical inactivity can lead to the development of osteoporosis.
Derya Karacif
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Screening to prevent osteoporotic fractures in Egypt: a position statement of the Egyptian Academy of Bone Health

Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation
Background By 2030, approximately 22.6 million individuals in Egypt will be older than 50 years and prone to develop osteoporosis and are at risk of sustaining a fragility fracture.
Yasser El Miedany, Maha El Gaafary, Naglaa Gadallah, Safaa Mahran, Mohamed Hassan Abu-Zaid, Waleed Hassan, Walaa Elwakil   +6 more
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Low Serum Levels of DKK2 Predict Incident Low‐Impact Fracture in Older Women

JBMR Plus, 2019
There are currently no robust noninvasive markers of fragility fractures. Secreted frizzled related protein‐1 (sFRP‐1), dickkopf‐related protein 1 (DKK1) and DKK2, and sclerostin (SOST) inhibit Wnt signaling and interfere with osteoblast‐mediated bone ...
Ana M Rodrigues, Mónica Eusébio, Ana B Rodrigues, Joana Caetano‐Lopes, Inês P Lopes, Ana Lopes, Jorge M Mendes, Pedro Simões Coelho, João Eurico Fonseca, Jaime C Branco, Helena Canhão   +10 more
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Low Rates of Bone Health Evaluation Before and After Primary Fragility Fractures

JBJS Open Access
Background:. Osteoporotic fractures pose a critical challenge in patient care, with earlier work pointing to a significant shortfall in preventing subsequent fractures. This study aimed to determine the rate and predictors of bone health evaluations (BHE)
Diane Ghanem, MD, Henry T. Shu, MD, Victoria E. Bergstein, BA, Brad Siler, BS, William A. Green, MEd, Eve R. Glenn, ScB, Andra Love, PA-C, Babar Shafiq, MD, FAOA, Alice J. Hughes, MD, Rachel B. Sotsky, MD   +9 more
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Relationship of Prevalent Fragility Fracture in Dementia Patients: Three Years Follow up Study

Geriatrics, 2020
Introduction: dementia increases the risk of falls by 2–3 times and cognitively impaired patients are three times more likely to have hip fracture following a fall when compared to cognitively intact individuals.
Inderpal Singh, Daniel Duric, Alfe Motoc, Chris Edwards, Anser Anwar   +4 more
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Bone health: Quality versus quantity

Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
: Healthy bone has the ability to resist deformation and fracture while adapting to applied mechanical loads. These properties of bone depend on characteristics of its extracellular matrix.
Anxhela Docaj, BE, Alessandra Carriero, PhD   +1 more
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Triglyceride Glucose Index is Strongly Associated with a Fragility Fracture in Postmenopausal Elderly Females with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Combined with Osteoporosis: A 6-Year Follow-Up Study

Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2023
Jiangmei Pan,1,2,* Xiuxian Huang,1,* Qiu Wang,1,* Jingxia Sun,1,* Zhenwei Zhai,1,* Jiacheng Mo,3 Jianhao Huang,1 Wensheng Lu1 1Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Guangxi Academy of Medical Sciences and the People’s Hospital ...
Pan J, Huang X, Wang Q, Sun J, Zhai Z, Mo J, Huang J, Lu W   +7 more
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Osteoporosis liaison service in Japan

Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia, 2019
A fracture liaison service (FLS) is a secondary fracture prevention program that is led by a coordinator. A program called the osteoporosis liaison service (OLS), which includes FLS, was first implemented in Japan and has become popular for solving ...
Hiroshi Hagino, Takashi Wada
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