0021-972x/92/7402-0351$03.00/0 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism Copyright 0 1992 by The Endocrine Society
Hip Mineral Fracture* CESAR
Vol. 74, No. 2 Printed in U.S.A.
Density
R. LIBANATI, ELOY J. BAYLINK
in Females
E. SCHULZ,
JAMES
with
E. SHOOK,
a Recent
MERLO
Hip
BOCK,
AND DAVID
Departments of Medicine (C.R.L., M.B., D. J. B.), Radiology (E.E.S.), and Orthopedics University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California 92357
ABSTRACT. To evaluate the role of local bone mineral density (BMD) in the etiology of hip fractures, we measured the hip BMD using dual photon absorptiometry in 29 females who had recently suffered a hip fracture associated with minimal or moderate, but not major, trauma and compared their BMD to those of 14 young normal females, 58 early postmenopausal normal females, 13 age-matched normal females, and 114 spinal osteoporotic females without a hip fracture. Hip-fractured patients had a BMD significantly lower (P
Hip Mineral Fracture* CESAR
Vol. 74, No. 2 Printed in U.S.A.
Density
R. LIBANATI, ELOY J. BAYLINK
in Females
E. SCHULZ,
JAMES
with
E. SHOOK,
a Recent
MERLO
Hip
BOCK,
AND DAVID
Departments of Medicine (C.R.L., M.B., D. J. B.), Radiology (E.E.S.), and Orthopedics University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California 92357
ABSTRACT. To evaluate the role of local bone mineral density (BMD) in the etiology of hip fractures, we measured the hip BMD using dual photon absorptiometry in 29 females who had recently suffered a hip fracture associated with minimal or moderate, but not major, trauma and compared their BMD to those of 14 young normal females, 58 early postmenopausal normal females, 13 age-matched normal females, and 114 spinal osteoporotic females without a hip fracture. Hip-fractured patients had a BMD significantly lower (P
