Low serum total calcium, low serum vitamin D, high calcitonin and low bone mineral density of the upper femur could be related to hip fracture risk in postmenopausal women.
Some lifetime factors also likely relate to the women’s hip fracture risk, Finnish researchers say. Stroke, diabetes, and malignant, heart and vascular diseases are associated, as is use of such drugs as antidepressants, neuroleptics and diabetes drugs.
They also report that low bone mineral density (BMD) and low calcitonin levels seem to be related to trochanteric fracture type in postmenopausal women. Investigators from the University of Oulu and the Deaconess Institute of Oulu compared lifetime factors, some biochemical measurements of bone metabolism and BMD in 74 postmenopausal women with non-pathological hip fracture and 40 age-adjusted controls without fracture.
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