Análisis de los factores de riesgo de las fracturas vertebrales osteoporóticas Analysis of risk factors of osteoporotic vertebral fractures
Year: 2006
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This prospective cohorts study includes patients who were hospitalized, due to osteoporotic fractures, from October 2004 to April 2005, at the Orthopaedics and Trauma Department at Hospital Clínico Universitario of Valencia. This study is included in GIOS Project (Integral Management Project for patients older than 50 years suffering osteoporotic fracture). A total of 449 patients have been included in the study, 59 patients suffered osteoporotic vertebral fracture and 390 patients suffering non-vertebral osteoporotic fractures, such as hip, distal radius and proximal humerus. The risk fac- tors of both groups have been analyzed and matched by age to be compared. It has been found incidence differences in age between both groups, as well as a greater influence of non-related age factors in the osteoporotic vertebral fracture group. From the results, it can be appreciated that not even a 10% of the patients included in the study, were previously tre- ated against osteoporosis, being desirable to detect patients with a high risk of suffering this type of fracture, in order to reduce the risk factors and start preventive treatment. Due to the growth of elder population, the number of osteoporotic fractures will increase substantially in future years, unless cost-effective control programs as GIOS are implanted.
Language: English
Subfield: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W28054486