comorbilità e fratture dell'epifisi prossimale di femore comorbidities and proximal femoral fractures

summary In Italy, as in other Western countries, at the same time with aging of the population has registered, in recent years, an increased incidence of fractures of the. Senile osteoporosis is certainly a contributory factor in determining femoral fractures in the elderly, but not all fractures are related to bone demineralization. Several large epidemiological studies have in fact shown that the greatest number of fractures was not observed in women with a T-score < 2.5, but in not osteoporotic women as defined by WHO. This finding suggests that bone demineralization is not the only risk factor for fracture, and that there are other important factors on which the attention so far has not been sufficiently focused. The purpose of this study was to evaluate, in elderly patients with recent hip fracture, the comorbidities and to investigate whether they could represent risk factors for fractures, medial and / or side of the proximal femur. * , a. romeo, a. Zocco, d. ronca