Epidemiology of hip fractures in Ecuador Epidemiología de las fracturas de cadera en Ecuador

• Main Author: Carlos H. Orces
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2009
• Subjects: Fracturas de cadera; osteoporosis; Ecuador; Hip fractures; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Argentina; Sobral
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/c30c50f1d53a40dfbd60c15192ea8792

OBJECTIVES: To report the age-, sex-, and type-specific hip fracture incidence rates in Ecuador. A secondary objective was to examine hip fracture geographic variations in Latin America. METHODS: The Anuario de Egresos Hospitalarios was analyzed to determine the number of persons aged 50 years or ol...