Associations between presence of diabetes, mortality and fracture type in individuals with a hip fracture

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AIMS: An overlooked aspect of diabetes is an increased risk of hip fractures, with associated mortality. We investigated whether fracture type and/or burden of comorbidities explains the increased risk of mortality in diabetes after hip fracture.

METHODS: For this cohort study, we used a de-identified data set of hip fracture patients registered in a quality-of-care registry (2017/2018) included in Maastricht University Medical Centre.

RESULTS: Among 594 hip fracture patients, 90 (15.2 %) had diabetes. Median (IQR) age was 82 (71-87) years and 63.8 % were women. Compared to patients without, patients with diabetes had higher median Charlson Comorbidity Index [1 (0-2) vs 0 (0-2), P < 0.001)] and were more likely to sustain intertrochanteric/subtrochanteric fractures [54.4 vs 38.7 %, P = 0.02]. Over a median follow-up of 2.7 (1.6-3.3) years, crude mortality rate was 30.8 % in patients without and 50.0 % in patients with diabetes. This association remained unaltered after adjustment for age, sex, BMI, fracture type or burden of co-morbidities.

CONCLUSION: Individuals with diabetes display a greatly increased absolute mortality risk after hip fracture. This association was not attenuated after adjustment for fracture type or non-diabetes associated co-morbidity. These findings have important implications for diabetes care in hip fracture patients, and underline the importance of fracture prevention.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:192

Enthalten in:

Diabetes research and clinical practice - 192(2022) vom: 10. Okt., Seite 110084

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Spaetgens, Bart [VerfasserIn]
Brouns, Steffie H A [VerfasserIn]
Linkens, Aimée E M J H [VerfasserIn]
Poeze, Martijn [VerfasserIn]
Ten Broeke, René H M [VerfasserIn]
Brüggemann, Renée A G [VerfasserIn]
Sipers, Walther [VerfasserIn]
Henry, Ronald M A [VerfasserIn]
Hanssen, Nordin M J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Diabetes
Hip fractures
In-hospital complications
Journal Article
Older individuals

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Date Completed 01.11.2022

Date Revised 01.11.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.diabres.2022.110084

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM346393671