Incidence of Fractures in Persons over 35 Years of Age: A Report to the M.R.C. Working Party on Fractures in the Elderly

At a conference on Fractures in the Elderly con- vened by the Medical Research Council in 1956, there was much discussion on the importance of fractures of the femur in old people as a manifesta- tion of osteoporosis. Although it was agreed that such fractures occurred frequently, no precise data were available about the incidence of, as opposed to mortality from, these or other types of fractures in the elderly. A Working Party on Fractures in the Elderly* was, therefore, set up to examine this question and to provide information on these injuries.