Incidence and risk factors for osteoporotic non-vertebral fracture in low-income community-dwelling elderly: a population-based prospective cohort study in Brazil. The São Paulo Ageing and Health (SPAH) study.
D S DomicianoL G MachadoC P FigueiredoV F CaparboR M OliveiraP R MenezesRosa Maria Rodrigues PereiraPublished in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2020)
This is the first population-based study to ascertain the incidence of major non-vertebral fractures in elderly Latin Americans, confirming the high frequency of the disorder. Age, prior fracture, and hip BMD were predictors of the short-term incidence of fracture.