Epidemiology of hip fractures
Rapp, K.; Büchele, G.; Dreinhöfer, K.; Bücking, B.; Becker, C.; Benzinger, P. · Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2018 · Heft 3 · S. 10 bis 16
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IntroductionThe life expectancy of the world population is increasing and more and more people are reaching high ages. This results in a shift of the health burden towards diseases appearing predominantly in higher ages. Hip fractures occur in old and very old people and the absolute number of fractures is therefore strongly affected by the observed demographic change. In the meantime, hip fractures are regarded as a worldwide epidemic and a major public health concern in many countries [1]. Globally, during the year 2000, there were an estimated 1.6 million hip fractures [2] accounting for about 20% of all frac…
