Seasonal variations in incidence of fractures among elderly people.

Objective: To investigate seasonal variations in the incidence of fall related fractures among people 65 years and older.

Population And Methods: A prospective, population based cohort study was performed on people aged 65 years and older followed up from 1990 to 1997, a total of 459,904 person years. Cases were identified through a prospective registration system.

[Regional differences in the incidence of femoral neck fractures in Norway].

Studies reporting data from the late seventies indicated there were significant differences in the incidence of hip fracture from county to county in Norway. We used the most recent available data on the occurrence of hip fracture in 1994 and 1995 and analyzed regional variations in the incidence of hip fracture, standardized for age and sex, among people aged 65 years and over. In 1994 and 1995 16,779 hip fractures occurred in Norway among people aged 65 years and over, making an overall annual crude incidence rate of 12.

[Fall-related injuries among elderly at home].

The aim of this study was to describe the extent of the problem of injuries from falling among elderly people at home. The study is based on data from the National Injury Register, which contains information on all inpatients and outpatients treated for injuries by hospitals and emergency clinics in four Norwegian towns. This study included 594 cases of accidental fall-related injuries which occurred at home in 1992 among a total population of 23,942 persons aged 65 years and over living in two towns, Drammen and Stavanger.

[Apparent decrease in the occurrence of anencephalus in Norway 1967-90].

The occurrence of anencephalus as reported to the Norwegian Medical Birth Registry has fallen from 4.9 per 10,000 births in 1967-71 to 2.7 in 1987-90.