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2024-07-18

2024

Lathyris Konstantinos

Χρήστος Ζαφείρης, Επιστημονικός Συνεργάτης, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ, Επιβλέπων
Ευστάθιος Χρονόπουλος, Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Κωνσταντίνος Σταθόπουλος, Επιστημονικός Συνεργάτης, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ

Εποχική διακύμανση οστεοπορωτικών καταγμάτων

Greek

Seasonal variation of osteoporotic fractures

Fragility fracture is a clinical feature of osteoporosis, a systemic skeletal disorder characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue. The most common sites of low trauma fractures are spine, hip, wrist and humerus. Seasonal variation of osteoporotic fractures is a subject of interest in multiple articles, as their results could contribute to the prevention of these fractures as well as to the more efficient function of health care systems worldwide. Furthermore the investigation of several factors that are related to this seasonal variation is of great interest.
The results for each site of fracture seem to have different patterns. Regarding the seasonal variation of osteoporotic fractures, research was conducted on the following search engines; pubmed, springer and google scholar.
In the majority of the investigations hip fragility fractures were more common in winter. There are less articles and surveys regarding vertebral fractures and their seasonal variation. The main cause is the difficulty in diagnosis, considering that a big amount of vertebral fractures are underdiagnosed. The majority of the articles referring to the seasonal variation of vertebral fractures indicate no significant quantitative difference throughout the months of the year. As for wrist and humerus fragility fractures they are more frequent in winter and this seasonality becomes greater with age.
In conclusion, factors that could be closely related with the results above is sun exposure, the level of serum vitamin-D, latitude and longitude, immense cold weather, ice and physical exersice. These factors could be subject of discussion between medical society and health ministries around the world in order to prevent fragility fractures.

Health Sciences

Seasonal variation, Fragility fractures, Osteoporosis

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