Background And Objective: Low-trauma non-spinal fractures are a growing source of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. We aimed to evaluate the overall incidence of low-trauma non-spinal fractures and of the main skeletal sites in a cohort of women from Spain.
Patients And Method: A total of 5,201 women, aged 65 or older, were enrolled in a 3-year cohort study by non-probabilistic sampling of consecutive cases in 58 primary care centers in Spain, with 6-month visits. All radiological or surgically confirmed low trauma non-spinal fractures were collected.
Results: 311 women (6.0%) sustained a total of 363 fractures after a 3.01-year median follow-up, and 14,999 women-year. The incidence rate of overall non-spinal fractures was 2,420 cases per 100,000 women-year. The incidence rates of hip, forearm and humeral fractures were 887,369 and 333 cases/100,000 women-year respectively.
Conclusions: Low-trauma non-spinal fractures are highly incident in Spain in women aged 65 years or older, similar to other western countries.
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