[Prevention of hip fracture in the elderly].
Hip fracture directly resulted in bedridden state in the elderly. Both development of osteoporosis and contusion of greater trochanter by accidental fall are important causes for the fracture. Large-scale interventions with randomized controlled methods revealed that alendronate, risedronate, some estrogens and hip protector were effective for prevention of hip fractures in the elderly although newly administration of estrogens are not recommended due to their increasing effects for cardiovascular complications. This report gives an outline fo prevention of hip fracture in the elderly.
Morimoto
Shigeto
S
Department of Geriatric Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University.
Okaishi
Kohya
K
Nakahashi
Tsuyoshi
T
Matsumoto
Masayuki
M