TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1994//
TI  - Risk of hip fracture in women with vertebral fracture
JO  - Journal of bone and mineral research
A1  - Kotowicz, M. A.
A1  - Melton, L. J.
A1  - Cooper, Colin
A1  - Atkinson, Elizabeth J.
A1  - O'Fallon, W. M.
A1  - Riggs, B. Lawrence
SP  - 599
EP  - 605
VL  - 9
IS  - 5
N2  - In a population-based retrospective cohort study, Rochester women aged 35-69 years who were first diagnosed with one or more vertebral fractures in 1950-1979 were followed for the development of a subsequent hip fracture. The 336 women with no history of hip fracture at the time of their vertebral fracture experienced 52 proximal femur fractures in 4788 person-years of follow-up. The standardized morbidity ratio (SMR) of observed to expected hip fractures was 1.8 (95% CI, 1.3-2.4) and was higher for intertrochanteric than cervical femoral fractures (SMR, 2.3 versus 1.3; P = 0.07). Hip fracture risk among women with symptomatic vertebral fractures was slightly less than in those with asymptomatic vertebral fractures (SMR, 1.8 versus 2.3; not significant), and younger women had no higher risk of a subsequent hip fracture than women who were > or = 60 years of age at the time of their vertebral fracture (SMR, 1.4 versus 1.8; not significant). Alternative explanations are possible, but these data are consistent with heterogeneity in the pathogenesis of different osteoporotic fractures.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0884-0431
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbmr.5650090503
ID  - ref1
ER  -