Falls caused by osteoporotic fractures in elderly Progress.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 16 Falls caused by osteoporotic fractures in elderly Progress Of: Luode Jun Zhou Xu Dong Xiliang Zhao Hongbin [Keywords:] osteoporosis, fractures Osteoporosis is a bone mineral content decreased, microscopic structure of bone degeneration, leading to bone fragility, decreased bone strength characteristics of a systemic skeletal disease, bone mineral content in the elderly population was negatively correlated with age (1). more susceptible to bone fragility resulting in osteoporotic fracture (OPF, has been reported 50% of women and 20% of men in their lives, at least one OPF. OPF at home and abroad caused the cause of a wide range of research, including endocrine, nutritional factors, genetic immunization, environmental, and J ?| rvinen, etc. (2) study pointed out that the focus should be to prevent fractures from osteoporosis to prevent falls into, because older people in falls and fractures will have serious economic burden, research shows that only the Irish to an annual cost of up to 40 billion USD (3). different countries have different incidence of falls (4), Japan’s elderly fall each year was 20%, U.S. 22 % ~ 34%, the incidence of elderly falls 14% to 34%, now falls prevention research at home and abroad are reviewed. 1 Definition of fall 1987 Kellogg International Working Group on Prevention of falls among the elderly will be defined as no intention to fall fall to the ground or some lower plane, but does not include violence, loss of consciousness, paralysis or seizures. Later, the definition of sudden fall of the patient unintentional halt, fell to the ground or poured in place to lower than the initial position (5). scholars generally believe that fall is now in any place under any circumstances, whether or causing bodily harm to or non-anticipatory sitting or sitting on the ground sliding, including limb weakness or support for live and had to sit on the ground slowly, the rapid growth in recent years 90% of hip