| Abstract text: |
The objectives of this study are to show the incidence of fractures by sex, age groups and environment of origin in Satu Mare County. It was studied all observation sheets of patients by department of Orthopedics and Traumatology from Satu Mare County Hospital, interned from 2009/01/01 to 2009/12/31. We selected the patients who had the diagnosis of fracture. Patients were divided by gender, age, environment of origin, and type of fracture. From the total of 800 patients which were diagnosed at admission with fracture, 416 were women (52%) and 384 men (48%). From the total of patients 332 (42%) came from urban, and 468 (58%) from rural. Regarding the distribution of age groups, patients with fractures are distributed in the following manner: older than 85 years, 58 patients (7.25%), age group 75-84 years 202 (22.25%), age group 65-74 years, 166 (20.75%), age group 55-64 years 162 patients (20.25%), age group 45-54 years 109 patients (13.62%), 35-44 years 52 patients (6.5%), 25-34 years 26 (3.25%), 15-24 years 20 (2.5%), under 15 years 5 patients (0.62%). By type of fracture are divided in: 96 patients (12%) with femoral neck fracture, 91 (11.37%) with forearm fracture, 28 (3.5%) with vertebral fracture, 139 (17.37%) with trochanterian fracture, 65 (8.12%) with femoral fracture, 54 (6.62%) with humeral fracture and 328 (41%) with other types of fracture. The increased incidence in women is at femoral neck fracture 65%, followed by forearm fracture 64.83%, humeral fracture 58.49%, femur fracture 52.30%, vertebral fracture 46.42%, trochanterian fracture 38.24%. The highest incidence in men is: vertebral fracture 53.57% followed by femoral neck fracture 47.69%, humeral fracture 41.51%, trochanterian fracture 38.84%, forearm fracture 35.16%, femoral fracture 35%. There is no universal definition of osteoporotic fracture. It is logical to consider low energy fractures as being an osteoporotic fracture of the hip, vertebra and forearm are considered to be osteoporotic fracture. |
