Research indicates higher risk of fractures with heart patients by 30%

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Heart failure puts patients at a nearly 30% greater risk for major osteoporotic fractures than those without the condition, according to research presented here at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) 2011 Annual Meeting.

Researchers in Canada who previously reported an independent link between heart failure and fractures sought to further investigate bone mineral density (BMD) data on such patients.

They conducted a population-based study in Manitoba, Canada, of 45,509 adults who underwent initial BMD testing between 1998 and 2007. Participants were followed through 2009.

Of the total, 1841 (4%) participants had a diagnosis of heart failure. There were 2703 incident fractures over a median of 5 years in the entire cohort; as many as 10% of persons with heart failure sustained incident major fractures compared with 5% of those without heart failure (age-sex adjusted hazard ratio [HR], 1.64; 95% confidence interval

Ref and Read more: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750022?sssdmh=dm1.720000&src=nldne

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