What are the three fractures typically associated with osteoporosis?Which is the worst?Why is this fracture so deadly?
The three areas typically subjected to fragility fracture with osteoporosis are
wrist (distal radius)
vertebral body compression
hip (femoral neck shown and intertrochanteric),.
Hip fractures are the worst: there is a ~30% mortality within the first year of fracture. That may be because of its effect on mobility, or maybe because getting a fracture in the first place is a sign of the dwindles…
And don’t forget: a low energy wrist fracture is a sign suggestive of underlying osteoporosis—a wrist fracture from a fall should be the initiator of an osteoporosis work up, or empiric treatment.
