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| Secular trends in hip fracture occurrence and survival: age and sex differences | | Author(s) | W Edward Bacon |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 8, no 4,, November 1996 |
| Pages | pp 538-553 |
| Keywords | Fractures ; Death ; Older men ; Older women ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The National Hospital Discharge Survey was used to analyse secular trends from 1965 to 1993 in hip fracture incidence and in-hospital survival in the white population aged 50 years and over in the United States (US). Age-specific fracture rates increased significantly for males in age groups 80-84 years and 85 years and older but not for younger males. For females, age-specific rates did not change significantly over the time period. Age-specific survival rates increased for both older men and women, but the increase was greatest for the men. The study suggested that the increase in hip fracture incidence in older men may be due to the high lifetime prevalence of smoking in this cohort. With rising incidence rates in older men, prevention efforts, which have focused mainly on women because of their high fracture rates, should target both sexes. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980407205 A |
| Classmark | CUF: CW: BC: BD: 3J: 7T |
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