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Association of disease definition, comorbidity burden, and prognosis with hip fracture probability among late-life women

JAMA Aug 09, 2019

Ensrud KE, et al. - Researchers examined how disease definition, comorbidity burden, and prognosis are associated with 5-year hip fracture probabilities among women 80 years and older via performing a prospective cohort study that included 1,528 women, (mean age: 84.1 years). Women with osteoporosis vs women without osteoporosis but at high fracture risk were at over three-fold higher 5-year hip fracture risk after accounting for the competing risk of death. Women with a greater number of comorbidities or poorer prognosis displayed the between-group difference even more pronouncedly.

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