The term "hip fracture" is commonly used to refer to four different fracture patterns and is often due to osteoporosis; in the vast majority of cases, a hip fracture is a fragility fracture due to ...

Women are at a higher risk of hip fractures when compared to men. This increased risk is largely attributed to hormonal ...

Hip fractures are a common and costly problem in older adults, and a new study finds there is a substantial variation in mortality, health outcomes and treatment measures among different countries ...

One in three adults over the age of 50 who fracture their hip will die within 12 months ... for fracture incidence and risk factors over different periods of time – 1,311 women and 842 men ...

Background: Several risk factors are associated to hip fractures. It seems that different hip fracture types have different etiologies. In this study, we evaluated the lifestyle-related risk ...

Finnish cohort study found that higher intake of liquid dairy products lowers the risk of osteoporotic and general fractures ...

The research employed big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover hidden clinical characteristics of hip fracture patients of different ethnicities, based on the electronic health records ...

We are not confident that one surgical approach (way of accessing the hip joint) compared to another leads to a different outcome for performing daily tasks, health-related quality of life, mobility ...

Among older adults who sustained a hip fracture, a significant proportion demonstrated varying levels of resilience across different HRQOL domains.

There was no difference in functional mobility between the groups of women with different hip fracture types. Self-rated mobility at baseline was not associated with the risk of hip fractures.