Open AccessAssociations of hemoglobin and change in hemoglobin with risk of incident hip fracture in older men and women: the cardiovascular health study
Author(s) -
Rodrigo J. Valderrábano,
Petra Bůžková,
Po Yin Chang,
Neil A. Zakai,
Howard A Fink,
John A. Robbins,
Jia Wu,
J.S. Lee
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
osteoporosis international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 170
eISSN - 1433-2965
pISSN - 0937-941X
DOI - 10.1007/s00198-021-05873-y
Subject(s) - medicine , hip fracture , hazard ratio , anemia , prospective cohort study , proportional hazards model , cohort study , hemoglobin , osteoporosis , cohort , quartile , confidence interval , surgery
In a multi-site longitudinal cohort study, decreasing hemoglobin was associated with increased hip fracture risk in men. Anemia was associated with hip fracture in men and in African American women. Decreasing hemoglobin may be a marker of progressing bone fragility, making its serial measurement useful for fracture risk stratification.