10-year mortality in women after hip fractures

The aim was to study the indexes of short- and long-term mortality in women after hip fractures (HF).Material and methods. In a retrospective study, the data of 146 women with HF aged 50 years and older (mean age (Me [25Q-75Q]): 77.7 [68.1-81.9] years old) hospitalized in 2005-2007 were analyzed. Life outcome data were collected three times (in 2015, 2016 and 2017) by the researchers by telephone contact with patients or their relatives. The analysis was carried out depending on age, type of fracture, the presence of concomitant diseases. The average follow-up period was 144.0 [131.5-152.5] months for surviving patients and 20.2 [6.7-55.0] months for deceased.Results. At the end of investigation 94 women (64.4% among all 146 patients) died, 52 survived. The average age at the time of death for the deceased (84.5 [76.9-91.3] years), did not differ from the indexes of survivors at the end of the study (82.0 [72.9-86.8] years). Hospital mortality rates were 1.6 %, 6-month, 1-, 5- and 10-year mortality, respectively – 12.7 %, 23.0 %, 43.7 % and 54.0%.Conclusions. Survival rates in women did not differ depending on fracture type, and were significantly higher (p < 0.01) in the patients older than 70 years compared with younger patients.