La Grande Hip Fracture Risk Reduced by Multivitamin Use
Hip fractures. These are major health issues globally. The risk of La Grande hip fracture is impacted negatively by drugs taken for all sorts of issues and positively by nutritional supplements. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC constantly considers the risk of fragility hip fracture in our patients with osteoporosis and carefully monitors our La Grande osteoporotic patients. A new, uncomplicated way to address hip fracture risk appears to be daily multivitamin supplementation. Easy!
La Grande OSTEOPOROSIS AND HIP FRACTURE
As easy as it seems, just finding the people who are at risk for osteoporotic hip fractures and treating them to avoid a hip fracture is occasionally a trick! A meta-analysis (a top-level review) of published research findings regarding the efficacy of screening the general population reported that such screening decreased osteoporotic fractures and hip fractures. (1) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is watchful of at-risk La Grande osteoporotic and hip fracture patients.
DRUGS AND La Grande OSTEOPOROTIC HIP FRACTURE
Fragility hip fractures and related matters including mortality are issues for healthcare providers. Certain pharmaceutical products are reported to change bone structure and influence the risk of fragility hip fractures. These drugs were highly linked to these fractures in a review of 38 studies on the topic: antiparkinsonian drugs, antidepressants, anxiolytic drugs, antipsychotic drugs, benzodiazepines, proton pump inhibitors, H2 antagonists, and thyroid hormone. One drug intervention was associated with 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: info about osteoporosis and fracture prevention. (2) That’s good advice. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is all about giving out information and would add that new research points to supplementation as a help.
La Grande 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 found 8 studies on hip fracture risk and multivitamin use. 80,148 subjects – 4237 of them had a fragility hip fracture – were examined. The average age was 69 years. 21% were male. Combined multivitamin supplements are already very popular and widely used. Their use was found to be significantly protective against osteoporosis-related hip fracture. (3) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC hates to think any of our osteoporotic patients would suffer a hip fracture!
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CONTACT Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
Schedule your La Grande chiropractic appointment now. We can evaluate your fragility hip fracture risk and the appropriateness of adding a multivitamin to your daily nutrition routine to prevent your suffering a hip fracture.
