title: Fractures in chronic kidney disease: neglected, common, and associated with sickness and death.
abstract: Bone fractures in dialysis patients have been poorly studied in the past. Tentori et al. partially fill this gap, assessing the incidence of post-fracture morbidity and mortality in patients of the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS). A high frequency of fractures and increased adverse outcomes following a fracture were observed. The nephrology community should pay more attention to bone fractures in dialysis patients.
authors.affiliation: Aging Section, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Institute of Neuroscience, Padua, Italy.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fusaro
authors.affiliation: Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Ospedale San Carlo Borromeo, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gallieni
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto, Women's College Hospital and Women's College Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Sophie A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Jamal
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality*; D008297:Male