McHenry Hip Fracture Risk Reduced by Multivitamin Use
Hip fractures. These are significant health issues around the world. McHenry hip fracture risk is impacted adversely by drugs taken for all sorts of issues and helpfully by nutritional supplements. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic always keeps in mind the risk of fragility hip fracture in our patients with osteoporosis and carefully observes our McHenry osteoporotic patients. A new, uncomplicated way to address hip fracture risk seems to be daily multivitamin supplementation. Easy!
McHenry OSTEOPOROSIS AND HIP FRACTURE
As easy as it seems, just figuring out who are at risk for osteoporotic hip fractures and treating them to prevent a hip fracture is occasionally a trick! A meta-analysis (a top-level review) of published research findings regarding the effectiveness of screening the general population reported that such screening reduced osteoporotic fractures and hip fractures. (1) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is vigilant about looking for at-risk McHenry osteoporotic and hip fracture patients.
DRUGS AND McHenry 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 influence 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, H2 antagonists, benzodiazepines, 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 is good advice. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is all about giving out information and would add that new research points to supplementation as a help.
McHenry 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 very popular and commonly used. Their use was observed to be significantly protective against osteoporosis-related hip fracture. (3) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic hates to think any of our osteoporotic patients would suffer a hip fracture!
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CONTACT OrthoIllinois Chiropractic
Make your McHenry chiropractic appointment now. We can assess your fragility hip fracture risk and the appropriateness of adding a multivitamin to your daily nutrition routine to avoid your experiencing a hip fracture.
