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Increased fragility fracture risk in Korean women who snore: a 10-year population-based prospective cohort study

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2017
Background Snoring is frequently associated with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Previous studies have shown that bone mineral density was significantly lower in patients with OSA than in controls; however, these studies did not focus on fractures ...
Soo Beom Choi, Il Suk Lyu, Wanhyung Lee, Deok Won Kim   +3 more
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Setting up a fracture liaison service to assess the risk of osteoporotic fractures and treatment gap in Helwan University Hospitals

Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation
Background In Egypt, despite the presence of numerous approved osteoporosis medications and many dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan facilities, only a small percentage of patients at high risk of sustaining a fragility fracture receive treatment. This
Merhan Tarek Abd El-Aziz, Yasser El Miedany, Mohamed Hussein Fadel, Dina Hatem El-Hammady, Amal Fehr   +4 more
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Awareness of Orthopedic Surgeons and Neurosurgeons About Fragility Fractures and Fracture Liaison Services: A Survey Study

Türk Osteoporoz Dergisi
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the awareness of neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons working in Eskişehir about fragility fractures and fracture liaison services.
Fulya Bakılan, Gizem Sarıçimen, Burcu Ortanca, Onur Armağan   +3 more
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Bone Health, Fragility Fractures, and the Hand Surgeon

Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online
Fragility fractures, which are often linked to osteoporosis, are fractures resulting from minimal trauma or low-impact falls. Although osteoporosis treatment can reduce risk of fragility fractures, many patients do not meet diagnostic criteria for ...
Jessica Ong, MD, PhD, Isabel Snee, BS, Isabel Marcano, MD, Scott Tintle, MD, Malek Cheikh, MD, Aviram M. Giladi, MD, MS   +5 more
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Sex-based Differences in the Association between Body Composition and Incident Fracture Risk in Koreans

Scientific Reports, 2017
The relative contribution of lean mass and fat mass on bone health is inconclusive. We investigated the relative contributions of lean and fat masses on fragility fracture risk in Korean men and women.
Jung Hee Kim, A. Ram Hong, Hyung Jin Choi, Eu Jeong Ku, Nam H. Cho, Chan Soo Shin   +5 more
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Systemic immune-inflammation index to albumin (SII/ALB) ratio as a novel dual-dimensional powerful predictor for hip fractures in elderly females with diabetes: a postmenopausal longitudinal cohort study

BMC Endocrine Disorders
Purpose Hip fracture is the most dangerous and potentially lethal fracture, described as “the last fracture of life” in older adults. Previous studies have shown that excessive immunoinflammatory response and nutrient deficiency may be involved ...
Jie Lu, Fenglian Wei, Jingxia Sun, Zhenwei Zhai, Jiangmei Pan, Shishan Huang, Haolun Wang, Qiu Wang, Wenxin Chu, Jinming Yu, Jianhao Huang, Xubin Wu, Wensheng Lu   +12 more
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Increased risk of fragility fractures among HIV infected compared to uninfected male veterans.

PLoS ONE, 2011
BackgroundHIV infection has been associated with an increased risk of fragility fracture. We explored whether or not this increased risk persisted in HIV infected and uninfected men when controlling for traditional fragility fracture risk factors ...
Julie A Womack, Joseph L Goulet, Cynthia Gibert, Cynthia Brandt, Chung Chou Chang, Barbara Gulanski, Liana Fraenkel, Kristin Mattocks, David Rimland, Maria C Rodriguez-Barradas, Janet Tate, Michael T Yin, Amy C Justice, Veterans Aging Cohort Study Project Team   +13 more
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Inpatient rehabilitation fracture liaison service (FLS) improves outcomes for secondary prevention of hip fractures

Bone Reports
Background: Secondary fracture prevention is a well-defined treatment-gap within osteoporosis management. Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) coordinates the management and treatment of patients following a fragility fracture in order to close the care gap ...
Orit Mazza, Chemda Gluck, Noa Menkes-Caspi, Robyn Jacob Bornstein, Hagay Amir, Michael Bahar, Amir Haim   +6 more
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Clinical assessment tools identify functional deficits in fragility fracture patients

Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2016
Tyler D Ames,1 Corinne E Wee,1 Khoi M Le,1 Tiffany L Wang,1 Julie Y Bishop,2 Laura S Phieffer,2 Carmen E Quatman2 1The Ohio State University College of Medicine, 2Department of Orthopaedics, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH,
Ames TD, Wee CE, Le KM, Wang TL, Bishop JY, Phieffer LS, Quatman CE   +6 more
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Association of frailty with fragility fractures and all‑cause mortality in adults: evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Background Fragility fractures impose a substantial global public health burden, driven by diminished bone strength and extrinsic risk factors. Frailty, characterized by multisystem decline and reduced physiological reserve, is increasingly recognized as
Guohua Dong, Hui Zhang, Dezhi Wang, Ming Zhu, Fengling Song, Qingbo Lin, Yulong Liu   +6 more
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