{"id":102325,"date":"2019-02-06T08:13:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T08:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/fractures-have-long-term-impacts-on-quality-of-life-in-older-people\/"},"modified":"2019-02-06T08:13:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T08:13:31","slug":"fractures-have-long-term-impacts-on-quality-of-life-in-older-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/fractures-have-long-term-impacts-on-quality-of-life-in-older-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractures have long-term impacts on quality of life in older people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Single and multiple hip, vertebral, and rib fractures strongly affect the quality of life of older adults over a prolonged period of time, according to a new study published in the <em>Journal of Bone and Mineral Research<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, which involved 10-year follow-up data, researchers determined the long-term impact of fragility fractures on health-related quality of life in more than 7,500 participants aged 50 years and older in the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study.<\/p>\n<p>Of note, hip and spine fractures were associated with negative impact on mobility, self-care, and ambulation. Women with hip fractures never recovered to their pre-fracture levels, while women with spine fractures took five years to regain their pre-fracture health-related quality of life.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><br \/>Penny Smith<br \/>newsroom@wiley.com<br \/>http:\/\/dx.<wbr>doi.<wbr>org\/<wbr>10.<wbr>1002\/<wbr>jbmr.<wbr>3666 <i class=\"fa fa-sign-out\"><\/i><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single and multiple hip, vertebral, and rib fractures strongly affect the quality of life of older adults over a prolonged period of time, according to a new study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. For the study, which involved 10-year follow-up data, researchers determined the long-term impact of fragility fractures on health-related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[293,299,334],"class_list":["post-102325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-medicine-health","tag-pain","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}