Risk factors of mortality during the first year after low energy osteoporosis fracture: a retrospective case-control study.
CONCLUSION: Patients died more often from their co-morbidities than direct complications of their fractures. Osteoporotic fracture seems to be a marker of poor health status and a factor which may hasten the death.
PMID: 27920808 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Clinical Cases in Mineral and Bone Metabolism - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Clin Cases Miner Bone Metab Source Type: research
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