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Second hip fracture in older adults: incidence and risk factors

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Abstract

Purpose

A second hip fracture can occur in older adults who have already suffered an initial hip fracture. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence, mortality and risk factors for second hip fractures in older adults with hip fractures.

Methods

Between 2009 and 2019, 2013 patients (mean age: mean age 76.5 ± 5.4 SD) who were admitted to a tertiary care hospital for a hip fracture surgery were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into two groups: those with a second hip fracture and those without a second hip fracture within the following two years after the initial fracture.

Results

321 patients (15.9%, mean age: 85.3 ± 4.9 SD) sustained a second contralateral hip fracture, the first two years after the initial hip fracture whereas 136 patients (6.8%) sustained a contralateral hip fracture within 12 months. In total 274 (13.6%) died in the first two years after the initial hip fracture; among these, 139 patients (43.3%) had a contralateral second hip fracture. The mean time from the first hip fracture to second hip fracture was 13.2 ± 7.6 months. The advance age, female gender, living alone, dementia, chest and urinary tract infection, chronic heart failure, peripheral vascular disease were identified as risk factors for a second contralateral hip fracture.

Conclusions

Identifying risk factors for a second contralateral hip fracture can be particularly helpful in providing focused medical assistance.

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  1. 2nd Orthopaedic Department, G. Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Christiana Zidrou, Angelo V. Vasiliadis & Anastasios Beletsiotis

  2. School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Angelo V. Vasiliadis

  3. School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Stavroula Rizou

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Zidrou, C., Vasiliadis, A.V., Rizou, S. et al. Second hip fracture in older adults: incidence and risk factors. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol 33, 1599–1606 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00590-022-03309-9

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