title: Race and sex differences in mortality following fracture of the hip.
abstract: This paper describes the all-cause mortality experience, following a fracture of the hip, of 712,027 persons covered by the Medicare program from 1984 through 1987. White women experienced the lowest mortality rate (17.2 per 1000 person-months), followed by Black women (22.9 per 1000 person-months), Black men (33.5 per 1000 person-months), and White men (33.7 per 1000 person-months). The observed race-sex differences in survival were found at all ages and regardless of the number of comorbid conditions listed with the discharge diagnosis. While these data demonstrate marked race-sex differences in survival following hip fracture, the cause of these differences is not immediately apparent and demands further investigation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. 55905.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Jacobsen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Goldberg
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Miles
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Brody
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Stiers
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Rimm
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D044383:Black People; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000208:ethnology / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D016019:Survival Analysis; D044465:White People