Though the overall burden of fragility hip fractures decreased from 2009 to 2018, the number of women aged 60-69 years reporting hip fractures grew 50%.
Researchers used hip fracture data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for 2009-2010, 2013-2014, and 2017-2018.
They included women older than 60 years with a bone mineral density T score ≤ −1 at the femur neck, measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry. Fragility fractures are defined as a self-reported hip fracture resulting from a fall from standing height or less.The number of women in their 60s who reported their first hip fracture grew by 50% from 2009 to 2018.
The opposite was true for women in their 70s and 80s who reported fewer first hip fractures over the study period.The prevalence of women withThe decrease in fractures overall and in women older than 70 years"may be due to increasing awareness and utilization of measures to decrease falls such as exercise, nutrition, health education, and environmental modifications targeted toward the elderly population," the authors wrote.
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