Increasing incidence of forearm fractures: A comparison of epidemiologic patterns 25 years apart
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- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Medical Journals Sweden AB in Acta Orthopaedica
- Vol. 56 (2) , 158-160
- https://doi.org/10.3109/17453678508994345
Abstract
During 1980 and 1981, 1914 fractures of the distal forearm occurred in Malmö, Sweden. The age-specific incidence peaked in childhood and there was a large increase in women after the age of 50; in men there was a smaller increase after the age of 70. In comparison with the Alffram & Bauer (1962) study of the same population in 1953–57, the age-specific incidence in elderly women and men has almost doubled. There was almost the same incidence of shaft fracture of the ulna or radius as 25 years ago.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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