Epidemiología de las fracturas en Chile / Epidemiology of bone fractures in Chile

ABSTRACT

Bone fractures represented 3.3% of diagnosis among 1,003,267 patients discharged from National Health System Hospital in Chile during 1985. Among 75,534 cfertified deaths, 1.2% followed fractures. Significantly higher rates were observed in males; after age 75, fractures wree more common in females. Rates per 100,000for different fractures were radio-cubital 45.4, shine and fibula 41, ankle 28.1, humerus 25.3, and hip 23.5. Among males the figures were shine and fibula 66.2, radius and cubitus 64.9, face 37.5 and ankle 37.1. Among females, hip 28.2, radius and cubitus 26.3, ankle 19.3 and humerus 16.5. Hip fracture is clearly related to age, the incidence raising from below 60 per 100,000 under age 60 to 617 in females and 330 in males above that age. Other fractures that increase with age include radius and cubitus, shine and fibula, ankle, humerus and fumur