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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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World Scientific Publishing
2022-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Clinical Rheumatology and Immunology |
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Online Access: | https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2661341722300075 |