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Osteoporosis, Fragility, Falls and Fractures

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Fractures in the elderly are caused by increased falling tendency and decreased bone mass which all develop with increasing age. Osteoporosis is defined as a systemic skeletal disease characterised by reduced resistance of bone due to loss of bone tissue and/or changed bone quality, which in turn pre-disposes a person to get a fracture. So there is low bone mass and deterioration in the micro-architecture of bone tissue, leading to increased risk of fracture. Diagnosis, prevention and treatment are described. When the patient is admitted to hospital for operation and rehabilitation after hip fracture or other fragility fractures preventive action should be taken to avoid future fractures.

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Thorngren, KG. (2014). Osteoporosis, Fragility, Falls and Fractures. In: Bentley, G. (eds) European Surgical Orthopaedics and Traumatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34746-7_13

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