Relation between fractures and mortality: results from the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fractures have largely been assessed by their impact on quality of life or health care costs. We conducted this study to evaluate the relation between fractures and mortality.

Methods

A total of 7753 randomly selected people (2187 men and 5566 women) aged 50 years and older from across Canada participated in a 5-year observational cohort study. Incident fractures were identified on the basis of validated self-report and were classified by type (vertebral, pelvic, forearm or wrist, rib, hip and "other"). We subdivided fracture groups by the year in which the fracture occurred during follow-up; those occurring in the fourth and fifth years were grouped together. We examined the relation between the time of the incident fracture and death.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Ioannidis G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2734204 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature