Drug Interactions and Hip Fracture Risk in Older Adults

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hip Fractures

Treatments: Drug: drug interaction

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04731597

3804

Details and patient eligibility

About

Older people are in great risk of hip fracture for multiple reasons. Also they often are on medications for medical conditions. Hip fracture risk increases in relation to some medications. When older peoples take 2 or more medications they are in increase risk of hip fracture.

Full description

In this study the investigators describe medication intake profile and identify older people risk of hip fracture in relation to their medication when they are taken together.

Enrollment: 9,721 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 64+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Affiliated patients to the HMO Plan de Salud Hospital Italiano at least 6 months affiliated.

older than 64 years old

* affiliated between 01/07/2014 al 31/12/2019.

Exclusion criteria

• Pathological Hip fracture
• bilateral elective hip replacement previous study period

Trial design

9,721 participants in 2 patient groups

Cases with hip fracture

Description:

Patients afiliated to a HMO Plan de Salud Hospital Italiano who presented hip fracture between 2014 and 2019

Treatment:

Drug: drug interaction

controls without hip fracture

Description:

Patients afiliated to a HMO Plan de Salud Hospital Italiano without hip fracture between 2014 and 2019

Treatment:

Drug: drug interaction