Mortality After Hip Fracture Greater in Patients With Dementia

[Abhiroop]

Patients with dementia are six times more likely to die after sustaining a hip fracture than are those without dementia, new research shows. Preliminary results from a registry-based study also showed that the percentage of participants who could not walk 4 months after a hip operation was almost double for those with dementia than it was for those without dementia.

[Insiya]

@abhiroop The findings underscore the importance of discussing medications that increase risk for a fall — and an ensuing hip fracture — at the time of a dementia diagnosis, co-investigator Dorota Religa, MD, PhD, professor and consultant in neurogeriatrics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, told Medscape Medical News.