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Gender differences and cognitive aspects on functional outcome after hip fracture-a 2 years' follow-up of 2,134 patients

Samuelsson, Bodil ; Hedstrom, Margareta I. ; Ponzer, Sari ; Soderqvist, Anita ; Samnegard, Eva ; Thorngren, Karl-Göran LU ; Cederholm, Tommy ; Saaf, Maria and Dalen, Nils (2009) In Age and Ageing 38(6). p.686-692
Abstract
Objective: we analysed outcome after hip fracture with respect to gender and cognitive function. Design: population-based, prospective cohort study. Setting: four university hospitals in Stockholm, Sweden. Subjects: a total of 2,134 consecutive patients admitted with hip fracture during 2003. Methods: gender differences in residence, walking ability and activity of daily living (ADL) were analysed at baseline, after 4 and 24 months in patients with and without intact cognitive function. Results: women were older, more often living alone and had poorer walking ability (P < 0.001). Cognitive dysfunction was equally common by gender. Women were more often treated with a prosthesis (P < 0.001) and sent to rehabilitation (P < 0.001).... (More)
Objective: we analysed outcome after hip fracture with respect to gender and cognitive function. Design: population-based, prospective cohort study. Setting: four university hospitals in Stockholm, Sweden. Subjects: a total of 2,134 consecutive patients admitted with hip fracture during 2003. Methods: gender differences in residence, walking ability and activity of daily living (ADL) were analysed at baseline, after 4 and 24 months in patients with and without intact cognitive function. Results: women were older, more often living alone and had poorer walking ability (P < 0.001). Cognitive dysfunction was equally common by gender. Women were more often treated with a prosthesis (P < 0.001) and sent to rehabilitation (P < 0.001). In the cognitive dysfunction group, men had more co-morbidity (P < 0.001) and total loss of walking ability (P = 0.03), but more often resided in own homes (P = 0.03). There was no gender difference in ADL. Conclusion: men had a higher risk for loss of walking ability and death only in patients with cognitive dysfunction. Cognitive function was the most important factor for returning to own home and regain pre-fracture function. (Less)
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conditions, living, cognitive function, hip fracture, gender differences, walking ability, elderly
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Age and Ageing
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38
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6
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686 - 692
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Oxford University Press
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1468-2834
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10.1093/ageing/afp169
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English
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  author       = {{Samuelsson, Bodil and Hedstrom, Margareta I. and Ponzer, Sari and Soderqvist, Anita and Samnegard, Eva and Thorngren, Karl-Göran and Cederholm, Tommy and Saaf, Maria and Dalen, Nils}},
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  title        = {{Gender differences and cognitive aspects on functional outcome after hip fracture-a 2 years' follow-up of 2,134 patients}},
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  doi          = {{10.1093/ageing/afp169}},
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