Femur fractures represent a major health issue burden for healthcare systems as it is estimated that one in 20 people will have a femur fracture throughout their lives. According to the 2005 issue of the Atlas de Variaciones en la Práctica Clínica and a subsequent document linked to the same organism (Bernal 2009), the incidence of femur fractures in Spain is 511 new cases per year per 100,000 inhabitants, with a gender distribution clearly tilted towards women (2.6 times). The incidence in Catalonia is the highest, 623, while in Galicia is the lowest, 317.
Although it’s believed that the incidence of femur fracture has little variability, note that the autonomous region that has the highest figure is almost twice of the lowest and on the other hand, if we carefully analyse the Bernal document, we can see that there are certain lifestyles that have a clear impact on the frequency of femur fractures, such as the following finding: if older people are living in a residence, they are three times more likely to break their femur that if living in their own house.
The incidence correlates with hospitalisation in 99% of cases
The incidence correlates with hospitalisation in 99% of cases
