Hip fracturing cases have increased four times since mid-century throughout the world. The Australian and British researchers say that fifty percent of women and almost thirty percent of men worldwide break a bone in their lifetime. The danger of bone fracture increases with age because of osteoporosis. The cases of hip fractures occurs the most in the old age people.
The journal ‘Lancet’ reveals that hip fractures cost almost $132 billion to world in 1997. It is estimated that more than six million cases of hip fracture will take place in the year 2050. That counts about four times as many as there were in 1990.
The report published in ‘Lancet’ says that public health systems must work for the diagnosis of weak bone disease for the people of old age especially.
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