Background: Osteoporosis, referred to as a " silent epidemic," is a skeletal disease with decreased bone density. This problem has no symptoms, but the most common result is fracture. According to the reported result, this disorder in Iran is more than 4% in men and more than 7% in women, while in the age of over 50 years, this statistic is significant and reaches more than 10% in both sexes. Considering this problem and the need to predict the conditions to change and treat it, it was decided to investigate this study of osteoporosis in people in a tertiary trauma center.
Materials and methods: In this study, 113 patients over 65 year old age admitted to the emergency room of Sina Hospital were examined by and subjected to BMD osteoporosis examination, and also the demographic examinations of the patients were recorded through interviews and examination of hospital records, and were finally subjected to statistical analysis
Findings: The age of the examined patients was 75.8 years and 67.3% were in the group over 70 years old. 44.2% of the studied population were women and 57.8% were men. 31 patients (27.4%) had a history of fracture. Alcohol consumption and smoking were reported in 3.5% and 31.9% of cases, respectively. In addition, there are 6 patients (3.5 percent) taking drugs on bone density, which in some cases were from the corticosteroid group.
The fracture status of the patients was in 61 cases (54%) in the lower limb and in 52 cases (46%) in the upper limb. A total of 76 patients (67.3%) have osteoporosis
Conclusion: This study found that about two-thirds of the patients who suffer limb fractures in old age have osteoporosis.