Risk of postmenopausal hip fracture in Mexican American women.
- 1 August 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 76 (8) , 1020-1021
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.76.8.1020
Abstract
To assess the risk of hip fracture in Mexican Americans, the ethnicity of 80 women aged 50 years and over admitted with hip fractures to a Texas hospital was compared with that of age-matched women hospitalized for other reasons. The risk of fracture for Mexican Americans was only 35 per cent that of Whites (95% CI = 19 per cent, 65 per cent). This finding was confirmed in a chart survey performed in a second hospital population. These results suggest that Mexican American women may receive less potential benefit from preventive measures for hip fracture than Whites.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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