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Hip Fractures in Portugal: 2006-2010 an epidemiologic analysis

Background: Hip fractures are considered to be the most devastating consequence of osteoporosis. They require long hospitalizations and high health-care costs and represent an important cause of morbidity, disability, and mortality, especially in the elderly. As patients are invariably hospitalized in most countries the epidemiology of hip fracture is well documented compared with other fracture outcomes and pr...