One-year mortality of elderly patients with hip fracture surgically treated at a hospital in Southern Brazil.

Objective: To analyze the mortality rate at one-year follow-up of patients with hip fracture who underwent surgery at the university hospital of this institution.

Method: The authors reviewed 213 medical records of hospitalized patients aged 65 years or older, following to the order they were admitted to the orthopedics and traumatology service from January 2012 to August 2013.

Results: One-year mortality rate was 23.

Elderly with proximal hip fracture present significantly lower levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D.

Objective: To compare serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels, a serum marker of vitamin D3, between patients with and without proximal hip fracture.

Methods: This was a case-control study in which serum samples of 25(OH)D were obtained from 110 proximal hip fracture inpatients and 231 control patients without fractures, all over 60 years of age. Levels of 25(OH)D lower than or equal to 20 ng/mL were considered deficient; from 21 ng/mL to 29 ng/mL, insufficient; and above 30 ng/mL, sufficient.