Oxford Hip Fracture Risk Reduced by Multivitamin Use
Hip fractures. These are significant health issues globally. Oxford hip fracture risk is impacted adversely by drugs taken for all sorts of issues and positively by nutritional supplements. Satterwhite Chiropractic always considers the risk of fragility hip fracture in our osteoporotic patients and carefully monitors our Oxford osteoporotic patients. A new, simple way to address hip fracture risk appears to be once-a-day multivitamin supplementation. Easy!
Oxford OSTEOPOROSIS AND HIP FRACTURE
As easy as it seems, just figuring out who are at risk for osteoporotic hip fractures and treating them to prevent a hip fracture is sometimes a trick! A meta-analysis (a top-level review) of published research data regarding the efficacy of screening the general population reported that such screening decreased osteoporotic fractures and hip fractures. (1) Satterwhite Chiropractic is vigilant about looking for at-risk Oxford osteoporotic and hip fracture patients.
DRUGS AND Oxford OSTEOPOROTIC HIP FRACTURE
Fragility hip fractures and related issues including mortality are issues for healthcare providers. Certain pharmaceutical products are described as changing bone structure and influence the risk of fragility hip fractures. These drugs were highly linked to these fractures in this review of 38 studies on the topic: antidepressants, antiparkinsonian drugs, antipsychotic drugs, anxiolytic drugs, benzodiazepines, H2 antagonists, proton pump inhibitors, and thyroid hormone. One drug intervention was linked to a reduced risk of hip fracture: hormone replacement therapy with estrogen. The advice researchers proposed to give patients at risk of fragility hip fractures caused by medications: information about osteoporosis and fracture prevention. (2) That’s good advice. Satterwhite Chiropractic is all about giving out information and would add that new research indicates that supplementation helps.
Oxford CHIROPRACTIC SUGGESTED NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS AND HIP FRACTURE REDUCTION
As hip fracture is a serious complication of osteoporosis, a non-drug approach like multivitamin use and its effect on hip fracture risk is of interest. A meta-analysis found 8 studies on hip fracture risk and multivitamin use. 80,148 subjects – 4237 of them had a fragility hip fracture – were examined. The average age was 69 years. 21% were male. Combined multivitamin supplements are already quite popular and commonly used. Their use was observed to be significantly protective against osteoporosis-related hip fracture. (3) Satterwhite Chiropractic hates to think any of our osteoporotic patients would deal with a hip fracture!
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Make your Oxford chiropractic appointment now. We can evaluate your fragility hip fracture risk and the appropriateness of adding a multivitamin to your daily nutrition routine to prevent your experiencing a hip fracture.
