[Mortality after hip fracture: a three year follow-up study].
OBJECTIVE
We designed this study to know the mortality rate of hip fractures after 3 years of follow-up.


METHODS
We admitted 194 patients with hip fractures (cases) from our reference hospitals and 184 without hip fractures (control) who were selected from an ambulatory health centre. After 3 years, morbidity and mortality causes were analyzed using medical records.


RESULTS
Mortality rate in cases was 40% compared with only 16.5% in patients without hip fracture (control group) (p = 0.000; non adjusted RR = 2.4; adjusted RR = 3.9). In the multivariant analysis, age (RR = 1.1), heart failure (RR = 2.5), neoplasia (RR = 3.5), dementia (RR = 5) and hip fracture were independently associated with mortality after 3 years of follow-up.


CONCLUSIONS
Patients with hip fracture showed a higher mortality (24%) than those without hip fracture after 3 years of follow-up.
Brossa Torruella
August
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Centro de Atención Primaria Plaça Catalunya, Equipo de Atención Primaria Manresa-2, Manresa, Barcelona, Spain. cap.pl.catalunya@manresa.scs.es
Tobias Ferrer
Joan
J
Zorrilla Ribeiro
José
J
López Borras
Ester
E
Alabart Teixidó
Andreu
A
Belmonte Garridof
Montserrat
M
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002423:Cause of Death; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors