Prince R L, Knuiman M W, Gulland L
University of Western Australia, Perth.
Aust J Public Health. 1993 Jun;17(2):124-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.1993.tb00119.x.
There is little published information on the epidemiology of fracture in Australia. We have therefore carried out a population-based retrospective study of fracture in an Australian population covering 1,073 subjects, 60 per cent of the eligible population over the age of 65 resident in Busselton in the southwest of Western Australia. They completed a questionnaire on the number of fractures, the skeletal site and the degree of trauma that caused the fracture. In this population, 39 per cent had sustained a total of 620 fractures, and 22 per cent of women and 6 per cent of men had sustained osteoporotic fractures. Hip and spine fractures accounted for only 9 per cent of osteoporotic fractures in females whereas wrist fractures accounted for 27 per cent, other upper limb fractures for 19 per cent and other lower limb fractures for 11 per cent. These results suggest that emphasis on spinal and hip fractures as the only manifestations of osteoporosis is inappropriate.
关于澳大利亚骨折流行病学的公开信息很少。因此，我们对澳大利亚的一个人群进行了一项基于人群的骨折回顾性研究，该人群涵盖1073名受试者，占西澳大利亚州西南部巴瑟尔顿65岁以上符合条件居民的60%。他们完成了一份关于骨折数量、骨骼部位以及导致骨折的创伤程度的问卷。在这个人群中，39%的人总共发生了620例骨折，22%的女性和6%的男性发生了骨质疏松性骨折。髋部和脊柱骨折仅占女性骨质疏松性骨折的9%，而腕部骨折占27%，其他上肢骨折占19%，其他下肢骨折占11%。这些结果表明，仅将脊柱和髋部骨折视为骨质疏松症的唯一表现是不合适的。
