Incidence of and trends in hip fracture among adults in urban China: A nationwide retrospective cohort study.
Chenggui ZhangJingnan FengShengfeng WangPei GaoLu XuJunxiong ZhuJialin JiaLili LiuGuozhen LiuJinxi WangSiyan ZhanChun-Li SongPublished in: PLoS medicine (2020)
Our results show that hip fracture incidence among patients aged 55 and over in China reached a plateau between 2012 and 2016. However, the absolute number of hip fractures and associated medical costs for hospitalization increased rapidly because of population aging.