Characteristics of fallers who later sustain a hip fracture: a NOREPOS study.

ABSTRACT: Fall prevention programs have shown inconclusive results concerning hip fracture reduction. We found that fallers with poor health, low societal participation, and use of psychotropics/painkillers had a threefold to fivefold increased hip fracture risk compared to non-fallers without these risk factors. This may help target fall prevention towards high-risk individuals.

Introduction

To investigate whether self-reported information on health, societal participation, and drug use in older people, easily obtainable by health care providers, contribute to predict future hip fracture beyond self-reported falls.

Methods

We used data from 3801 women and 6439 men aged 70-79 years participating in population-based studies in five counties in Norway 2000-2003. Height and weight were me

SUBMITTER: Sogaard AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9568442 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature