[Relationship between quality of life and vertebral fracture in older women living in Southern Brazil].

Purpose: To investigate the relationship between quality of life and spinal fracture in women aged over 60 living in Southern Brazil.

Methods: A case-control study was conducted with the application of the WHOQOL-bref questionnaire to 100 women living in the city of Chapecó (SC), aged over 60, postmenopausal, white or Caucasian, with no important cognitive impairment or a history of diseases known to affect bone metabolism, or malignant neoplasias. The population was divided into two groups depending on the presence or absence of fractures in the spine radiography.