Vancouver Hip Fracture Risk Reduced by Multivitamin Use
Hip fractures. These are significant health issues around the globe. Vancouver hip fracture risk is impacted negatively by drugs taken for all sorts of issues and positively by nutritional supplements. Vancouver Disc Centers always considers the risk of fragility hip fracture in our osteoporotic patients and carefully observes our Vancouver osteoporotic patients. A new, uncomplicated way to address hip fracture risk seems to be once-a-day multivitamin supplementation. Easy!
Vancouver OSTEOPOROSIS AND HIP FRACTURE
As easy as it seems, just figuring out who are at risk for osteoporotic hip fractures and treating them to avoid a hip fracture is occasionally difficult! A meta-analysis (a top-level review) of published research findings about the effectiveness of screening the general population reported that such screening decreased osteoporotic fractures and hip fractures. (1) Vancouver Disc Centers is vigilant about looking for at-risk Vancouver osteoporotic and hip fracture patients.
DRUGS AND Vancouver OSTEOPOROTIC HIP FRACTURE
Fragility hip fractures and associated issues like mortality are issues for healthcare providers. Certain pharmaceutical products are reported to alter bone structure and impact the risk of fragility hip fractures. These drugs were significantly associated with these fractures in a review of 38 studies on the subject: antidepressants, antiparkinsonian drugs, antipsychotic drugs, anxiolytic drugs, benzodiazepines, H2 antagonists, proton pump inhibitors, and thyroid hormone. One drug intervention was linked to a reduced risk of hip fracture: hormone replacement therapy with estrogen. The advice researchers proposed to give patients at risk of fragility hip fractures caused by medications: information about osteoporosis and fracture prevention. (2) That’s good advice. Vancouver Disc Centers is all about sharing information and would add that new research indicates that supplementation helps.
Vancouver CHIROPRACTIC SUGGESTED NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS AND HIP FRACTURE REDUCTION
As hip fracture is a serious complication of osteoporosis, a non-drug approach like multivitamin use and its effect on hip fracture risk is of interest. A meta-analysis reported on 8 studies on hip fracture risk and multivitamin use. 80,148 subjects – 4237 of them had a fragility hip fracture – were reviewed. The average age was 69 years. 21% were male. Combined multivitamin supplements are already very popular and widely used. Their use was found to be significantly protective against osteoporosis-related hip fracture. (3) Vancouver Disc Centers would hate to see any of our osteoporotic patients suffer a hip fracture!
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Schedule your Vancouver chiropractic appointment today. We can evaluate your fragility hip fracture risk and the appropriateness of adding a multivitamin to your daily nutrition routine to prevent your suffering a hip fracture.
