Diabetes patients may have higher rates of fracture, finds study
Denmark: A recent study has reported higher unadjusted fracture rates in patients with diabetes that decreased between 1997 and 2017, other than vertebral fractures, which increased in all groups. The study appeared in the journal Diabetes Care on January 25 2023.
According to recent estimates, 463 million people are impacted by type 1 and type 2 diabetes worldwide, type 2 diabetes accounts for 90% of all diabetes patients. In the coming decades, the number of patients with type 2 and type 1 diabetes is predicted to increase rapidly. Several studies have shown an increased fragility fracture risk among T1D and T2D patients, with most focusing on the total (nonspecific) fracture risks or major osteoporotic sites of the vertebrae or hip. Also, patients with type 2 and type 1 diabetes have a higher risk of postfracture complications, prolonged fracture healing and higher mortality after a hip fracture.
Against the above background, Andrea M. Burden from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues aimed to set out to investigate trends in incidence rates (IRs) at various fracture sites for type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes patients compared with patients without diabetes in Denmark in 1997–2017.
For this purpose, the researchers identified patients aged ≥18 years with a hip, vertebral, foot, forearm, or ankle fracture between 1997 and 2017 from discharge data from a Danish hospital. Over the study period, IRs per 10,000 person-years were calculated. A comparison was made between median IRs for the first (1997–2001) and the last (2013–2017) five years. Age-adjusted IR ratios (IRRs) of fractures were estimated in type 2 and type 1 diabetes patients compared to those without diabetes.
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