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    Diabetes increases risk of fractures in those who are frail, finds study

    Written by Deepanjana Sarkar Published On 2019-02-12T19:25:49+05:30  |  Updated On 12 Feb 2019 7:25 PM IST
    Diabetes increases risk of fractures in those who are frail, finds study

    Diabetes increases the risk of fractures in those who are frail, according to a new study. Frailty in type 2 diabetes patients escalades fragility fracture associated risk. Therefore evaluation of frailty status can improve fracture risk assessment and management in diabetes. The findings of the study have been published in Diabetes Care.


    Frailty (a condition of being physically weak) exposes a person to a spectrum of adverse health outcomes.


    Guowei Li PhD, MBBS, MSc, associate director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Methodology at Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital in China in collaboration with McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, conducted a study with 3,149 participants (mean age, 65.1 years; 69.9% women) from the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study. The researchers recruited adults aged at least 25 years from nine centres in Canada from 1995 to 1997.


    Of the total cohort, 138 participants had diabetes and 3,011 did not. All participants had physical examinations at baseline, 5 years and 10 years to determine height and weight and underwent DXA at the lumbar spine and hip, to determine bone mineral density. A follow-up questionnaire was sent annually to ascertain fracture incidents, hospitalizations and the use of bone health medications. The researchers also measured frailty status by way of an established frailty index, which followed a scale of 0 to 1, with scores closer to 1 indicating increased frailty.


    Higher mean frailty index scores were reported in the 138 participants with diabetes compared with the 3,011 participants without, equating to a mean frailty index difference of 0.05. In addition, 25.4% of participants with diabetes presented with a fragility fracture compared with 19.1% of the group without diabetes.



    The researchers found that when fully adjusted, there was a significant relationship between the frailty index and fragility fracture risk both for every 0.1 increase in index score and every 0.1 increase in fragility fracture risk. Relationships between fragility fracture and diabetes and hip fracture and diabetes were also found. “This research reveals that measuring frailty status can clarify participants with type 2 diabetes who are truly at high risk of fragility fracture; therefore, particular attention should be paid to diabetes as a risk factor for fractures in those who are frail. Previous studies have reported that diabetes is a significant risk factor for fragility fracture,” Li said- “However, our results showed not all participants with diabetes had a high risk of fracture (only those with a high degree of frailty were associated with increased fracture risk). Therefore, our study indicated that evaluating frailty status as an effect modifier independent of BMD can improve fracture risk assessment and management in diabetes.


    To know more about this study please click on the link below

    http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2019/01/25/dc18-1965
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