St Peters Hip Fracture Risk Reduced by Multivitamin Use
Hip fractures. These are significant health issues globally. The risk of St Peters hip fracture is impacted negatively by drugs taken for all sorts of issues and positively by nutritional supplements. Old Mill Chiropractic constantly considers the risk of fragility hip fracture in our osteoporotic patients and carefully observes our St Peters osteoporotic patients. A new, uncomplicated way to address hip fracture risk seems to be daily multivitamin supplementation. Easy!
St Peters 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 sometimes difficult! A meta-analysis (a top-level review) of published research findings regarding the efficacy of screening the general population reported that such screening reduced osteoporotic fractures and hip fractures. (1) Old Mill Chiropractic is watchful of at-risk St Peters osteoporotic and hip fracture patients.
DRUGS AND St Peters OSTEOPOROTIC HIP FRACTURE
Fragility hip fractures and associated issues like mortality are issues for healthcare providers. Certain pharmaceutical products are described as changing bone structure and impact the risk of fragility hip fractures. These drugs were significantly associated with these fractures in this review of 38 studies on the subject: 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 suggested to give patients at risk of fragility hip fractures due to medications: details about osteoporosis and fracture prevention. (2) That’s good advice. Old Mill Chiropractic is all about giving out information and would add that new research points to supplementation as a help.
St Peters 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 included. The average age was 69 years. 21% were male. Combined multivitamin supplements are already quite popular and commonly used. Their use was observed to be significantly protective against osteoporosis-related hip fracture. (3) Old Mill Chiropractic would hate to see any of our osteoporotic patients experience a hip fracture!
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Schedule your St Peters chiropractic appointment today. 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.