Elgin Hip Fracture Risk Reduced by Multivitamin Use
Hip fractures. These are significant health issues around the world. The risk of Elgin hip fracture is impacted adversely by drugs taken for all sorts of issues and positively by nutritional supplements. Connected Chiropractic constantly keeps in mind the risk of fragility hip fracture in our osteoporotic patients and carefully observes our Elgin osteoporotic patients. A new, simple way to address hip fracture risk seems to be daily multivitamin supplementation. Easy!
Elgin 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 sometimes difficult! A meta-analysis (a top-level review) of published research data about the efficacy of screening the general population reported that such screening reduced osteoporotic fractures and hip fractures. (1) Connected Chiropractic is watchful of at-risk Elgin osteoporotic and hip fracture patients.
DRUGS AND Elgin OSTEOPOROTIC HIP FRACTURE
Fragility hip fractures and associated issues including mortality are issues for healthcare providers. Certain pharmaceutical products are described as changing bone structure and impact the risk of fragility hip fractures. These drugs were significantly linked to these fractures in a review of 38 studies on the subject: antiparkinsonian drugs, antidepressants, anxiolytic drugs, antipsychotic drugs, benzodiazepines, proton pump inhibitors, H2 antagonists, and thyroid hormone. One drug intervention was linked to a decreased risk of hip fracture: hormone replacement therapy with estrogen. The advice researchers suggested to give patients at risk of fragility hip fractures due to medications: information about osteoporosis and fracture prevention. (2) That’s good advice. Connected Chiropractic is all about sharing information and would add that new research indicates that supplementation helps.
Elgin 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 most interesting. 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 quite popular and widely used. Their use was observed to be significantly protective against osteoporosis-related hip fracture. (3) Connected Chiropractic would hate to see any of our osteoporotic patients suffer a hip fracture!
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CONTACT Connected Chiropractic
Make your Elgin chiropractic appointment soon. We can assess your fragility hip fracture risk and the appropriateness of adding a multivitamin to your daily nutrition routine to prevent your suffering a hip fracture.
