Hip Fracture in Asia with a Special Focus in the Oldest Old: A Brief Review

Osteoporosis is a prevalent disease globally, with fragility fracture being the clinical outcome. Hip fracture is mostly associated with morbidity, immobility, and mortality among all fragility fractures. Although earlier studies in the 1990s projected that half of the hip fractures in the world wil...

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Main Authors: Ching-Lung Cheung, Shun-Cheong Ho, Suhas Krishnamoorthy, Xiaowen Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing 2022-06-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Rheumatology and Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2661341722300075