Drug Interactions and Hip Fracture Risk in Older Adults
- Conditions
- Hip Fractures
- Interventions
- Drug: drug interaction
- Registration Number
- NCT04731597
- Lead Sponsor
- Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
- Brief Summary
Older people are in great risk of hip fracture for multiple reasons. Also they often are on medications for medical conditions. Hip fracture risk increases in relation to some medications. When older peoples take 2 or more medications they are in increase risk of hip fracture.
- Detailed Description
In this study the investigators describe medication intake profile and identify older people risk of hip fracture in relation to their medication when they are taken together.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 9721
* Affiliated patients to the HMO Plan de Salud Hospital Italiano at least 6 months affiliated.
older than 64 years old
* affiliated between 01/07/2014 al 31/12/2019.
- Pathological Hip fracture
- bilateral elective hip replacement previous study period
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Cases with hip fracture drug interaction Patients afiliated to a HMO Plan de Salud Hospital Italiano who presented hip fracture between 2014 and 2019 controls without hip fracture drug interaction Patients afiliated to a HMO Plan de Salud Hospital Italiano without hip fracture between 2014 and 2019
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method hip fracture 1 year non pathological hip fracture
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
🇦🇷Caba, Buenos Aires, Argentina