Study Shows The High Risk Of Fractured Hip Can Cause Death To Older Women

A new research suggest that a healthy but older women who have fracture hip is prone of dying ahead of time. Still, "excess uric acid may contribute to the development of osteoarthritis".

Dr. Erin S. LeBlanc of the Center for Health Research at Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland, Oregon states that their research was able to rule out the effects of hip fracture with health conditions by scrutinizing the risk of death after hip fracture in women who were in tremendous health.

The study with the relation between bone fractures and death has been among  of the first studies to confirm that the hip fracture itself places women at  a higher risk of early death, says the Reuters Health website.

LeBlanc says that other studies have concluded that the increased death risk was due to underlying health conditions.

Although, she went as far as saying that it can be controlled. The studies have found out  that there is something about the hip fracture itself that rises the danger  of death within the first year. The discovery was available in the archives of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Michael Herson, who was not part  in the study, spoke to Reuters Health about how they used to suppose that it was the general ill-health of a patient that increased the mortality rate in people who have a hip fracture. This study illustrates that the death toll  is also noticeably higher in healthy women who fractured a hip.

Ensuing a hip fracture, they will need to have a closer  look  about trying to adjust any or all risk influences for dying, says Dr. Herson, who is also a chief endocrinology at Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland. Though the root cause  has to be confirmed, it is sensible to take responsibility that a lot of this will be due to abridged kinesis, which displays high risk of blood clots and pneumonia.

Dr. LeBlanc’s findings stemmed from 5,580 women aged 65 and older who were followed for an average of 14.4 years as part of Study of Osteoporotic Fractures, a large, community-based multicenter study.

An over-all number  of 1,116 women with hip fracture were selected and each was matched with four control participants of the same age who did not have hip fracture (4,464 controls in all).

The researchers strongly gave advice that elderly women and those younger women who are at high risk of fractures should be counselled about how to keep their bones as healthy as possible and how to keep them from falling which may lead to hip implant and which moves many patients into filing a Pinnacle lawsuit.

URL References:

http://www.thedoctorschannel.com/go/reuters/4741.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110926165857.htm