[Fragility non-spinal fractures in a cohort of 5,201 women aged 65 years and older during a 3-year follow-up].
OBJECTIVE
Low-trauma non-spinal fractures are a growing source of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. We aimed to evaluate the overall incidence of low-trauma non-spinal fractures and of the main skeletal sites in a cohort of women from Spain.


METHODS
A total of 5,201 women, aged 65 or older, were enrolled in a 3-year cohort study by non-probabilistic sampling of consecutive cases in 58 primary care centers in Spain, with 6-month visits. All radiological or surgically confirmed low trauma non-spinal fractures were collected.


RESULTS
311 women (6.0%) sustained a total of 363 fractures after a 3.01-year median follow-up, and 14,999 women-year. The incidence rate of overall non-spinal fractures was 2,420 cases per 100,000 women-year. The incidence rates of hip, forearm and humeral fractures were 887,369 and 333 cases/100,000 women-year respectively.


CONCLUSIONS
Low-trauma non-spinal fractures are highly incident in Spain in women aged 65 years or older, similar to other western countries.
Marín
Fernando
F
Departamento de Investigación Médica, Lilly S.A., Madrid, España. marin_fernando@lilly.com
González-Macías
Jesús
J
Moya
Rafael
R
Onrubia
Consuelo
C
Cancelo
Carmen
C
Alvarez
Salvador
S
Montero
Juan José
JJ
Gómez
Francisco
F
Carbonell
Cristina
C
Vila
Joan
J
Díez-Pérez
Adolfo
A
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D015663:Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology