Elderly patients who sustain hip fractures face significant risks of morbidity, mortality and loss of independence. Clinical management begins with prompt assessment of fracture type—commonly femoral ...

Zoledronic acid administration during the initial hospitalization for osteoporotic hip fracture significantly reduces all-cause mortality and subsequent vertebral fractures among older patients.

In the case of a hip fracture, operating on a patient with dementia can be a difficult decision to make. Indeed, surgery exposes patients with dementia to a higher mortality rate, more delirium and ...

Findings challenge the idea that GLP-1 drugs have a neutral effect on the bone, researcher ...

Gabapentinoids -- pregabalin and gabapentin -- were tied to increased hip fracture risk in older adults. Risks were high for people with chronic kidney disease or significant frailty. Odds of hip ...

Osteoporosis treatment following fragility fracture was associated with significantly reduced hospitalization and mortality risks among patients aged 80 years and older. After fracture at 80 years of ...

A research team in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), found that hip fractures not only result in both physical and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . With increasing life expectancy, frailty and hip fractures will correspondingly increase in numbers, now at more ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Odds of a mortality event were 10% after hip fracture vs. 25% after odontoid fracture 2 years after initial ...