• Osteoporos Int · May 2017

    Multicenter Study

    Preceding and subsequent high- and low-trauma fracture patterns-a 13-year epidemiological study in females and males in Austria.

    • C Muschitz, R Kocijan, A Baierl, R Dormann, X Feichtinger, J Haschka, M Szivak, G K Muschitz, J Schanda, P Pietschmann, H Resch, and H P Dimai.
    • St. Vincent Hospital Vienna, Medical Department II-Metabolic Bone Diseases Unit, VINFORCE, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Medical University of Vienna, Stumpergasse 13, 1060, Vienna, Austria. christian.... more muschitz@bhs.at. less
    • Osteoporos Int. 2017 May 1; 28 (5): 1609-1618.

    AbstractThis study investigated the implication of a preceding high-trauma fracture on subsequent high- and low-trauma fractures at different skeletal sites in postmenopausal women and similarly aged men at an age range of 54 to 70 years. A preceding high-trauma fracture increases the risk of future low-trauma non-vertebral fractures including hip.

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