Nutritional Risk Factors for Hip Fracture: a Case Control Study

University of Oslo (UIO)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hip Fracture

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01738776

S-0916901(REK)

120000MM (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Low Body Mass Index (BMI) is a risk factor for hip fracture, but it is unknown if it is the low BMI per se that increases risk of hip fracture or if specific micro-nutrients contribute. The investigators want to elucidate this aspect in a case control study studying micronutrients in serum and bone turnover markers of hip fracture patients compared with controls of the same age.

Enrollment: 184 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Cases are admitted acutely for a femoral neck fracture, a trochanteric or a subtrochanteric femoral fracture.

Exclusion criteria

• Hip fracture as part of multi-trauma or high energy trauma (defined as a fall from a higher level than 1 metre). One recent fracture in addition to the hip fracture (e.g. radius or shoulder) is acceptable.
• Regarded as moribund at admittance.
• Absence of a valid informed consent or assent.

Trial design

184 participants in 2 patient groups

Cases

Description:

Hip fracture patients participating in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of orthogeriatric care (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01009268)

Controls

Description:

A group of voluntary elderly persons without a history of hip fracture, recruited specifically for this purpose