Adults with cerebral palsy have higher prevalence of fracture compared with adults without cerebral palsy independent of osteoporosis and cardiometabolic diseases
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research Jun 20, 2019
Whitney DG, et al. - The prevalence of fracture among a large sample of private insured cerebral palsy (CP) adults was determined by researchers as compared to adults without CP. They used diagnostic codes to identify beneficiaries 18- to 64-year-old with and without CP and any fracture consisting of osteoporotic pathological fracture as well as any type of head/neck, thoracic, lumbar/pelvis, upper and lower extremity fractures. For adults with (n = 5,555) and without (n = 5.5 million) CP, the prevalence of any fracture was compared. Compared to adults without CP, CP adults had a higher prevalence of all-cause fracture and fracture of the head/neck, thoracic, lumbar/pelvic, upper extremity, and lower extremity regions. The results obtained from this cross-sectional study indicate that young and middle-aged adults with CP have a high prevalence of all-cause fracture vs adults without CP, present even after cardiometabolic diseases and osteoporosis were taken into account.
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