Hip Fractures Risk and Postoperative Period in Elderly Diabetic Patients

Hip fractures with the numbers about 1.6 million over the world in 2000 are serious health problem which drastically limits the functionality and increases mortality in geriatric population. Peritrochanteric and neck hip fractures result from the reduction of mineral bone density or impaired quality.

 However age related co-morbidities add additional risk related to increased incidence of falls. The one of the diseases found to increase hip fractures incidence and associated mortality is diabetes which currently affects 415 million adults over the world with increasing prevalence, predicted to 642 million by 2040.

Type 1 diabetes contributes to fragility by unfavorable changes in bone metabolism. Although type 2 diabetes effects on bone may be paradoxically opposed, it still increases risk of falls and hip fractures.

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