BACKGROUND Osteoporosis is a skeletal disorder characterized by compromised bone strength predisposing to an increased risk of fracture. Osteoporotic fractures cause significant morbidity, disability, and decrease in quality of life. AIM The aims of the Physiatric Approach To Osteoporosis (PATO) project were to classify osteoporotic patients with or without fragility fractures, using the Brie...

PURPOSE To analyze the prevalence of and factors associated with fragility fractures in Brazilian women aged 50 years and older. METHODS This cross-sectional population survey, conducted between May 10 and October 31, 2011, included 622 women aged >50 years living in a city in southeastern Brazil. A questionnaire was administered to each woman by a trained interviewer. The associations betwee...

Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have an increased risk of fragility fractures despite increased body weight and normal or higher bone mineral density. The mechanisms by which T2DM increases skeletal fragility are unclear. It is likely that a combination of factors, including a greater risk of falling, regional osteopenia, and impaired bone quality, contributes to the increased fra...

OBJECTIVES This community-based cohort study was performed to investigate the incidence of and factors related to self-reported fragility fractures among middle-aged and elderly women living in rural Korea. METHODS The osteoporosis cohort recruited 430 women 40 to 69 years old in 1999, and 396 of these women were followed over 11 years. In 1999, questionnaires from all participants assessed g...

1Department for General, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377 Munich, Germany 2Department for Trauma Surgery and Sports Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria 3Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore 308433 4Paracelsus Medical Private University, Kl...

Fragility fractures, those fractures which result from low level trauma, have a large and growing socio-economic cost in countries with aging populations. Bone-density-based assessment techniques are vital for identifying populations that are at higher risk of fracture, but do not have high sensitivity when it comes to identifying individuals who will go on to have their first fragility fractur...

Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) is most commonly current metabolic disorder as it affects more than 385 million and it is expected to reach about 590 million by 2035 worldwide [1], so that NIDDM has huge economic burden and adverse medical effects as there is a risk of fracture due to bone fragility in spite many researches confirm normal or even higher bone mineral density (BMD...

Osteoporosis can be classified into two big categories, clinical osteoporosis and densitometric osteoporosis. Clinical osteoporosis involves a fragility fracture, and no densitometry is needed to start treatment. Densitometric osteoporosis is defined by means of a bone mineral density assessment. Treatment should be considered depending on the global fracture risk, and taking the densitometric ...