Peripheral arterial disease and risk of hip fracture: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies have suggested an increased risk of hip fracture among patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), however, the results have been inconsistent. This meta-analysis was conducted with the aim to summarize all available evidence to better characterize the risk of incident hip fracture among these patients.

Materials and methods

A comprehensive literature review was conducted using the MEDLINE and EMBASE databases through October 2017 to identify all cohort and case-control studies that compared the risk of subsequent hip fracture between patients with PAD and individuals without PAD. Effect estimates of the included studies were extracted and combined using the random-effect, generic inverse variance method of DerSimonian and Laird.

Results</

SUBMITTER: Ungprasert P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6198699 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature