Fracture prediction from self-reported falls in routine clinical practice: a registry-based cohort study.
William D LeslieS N MorinL M LixP MartineauM BryantonE V McCloskeyH JohanssonN C HarveyJ A KanisPublished in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2019)
Self-report number of falls in the previous year is strongly associated with incident fracture risk in the routine clinical practice setting, and this risk is independent of age, sex, BMD, and baseline fracture probability. Moreover, there is dose-response with multiple falls (up to a maximum of 3) conferring greater risk than a single fall.