BackgroundMortality following hip fracture is high and incompletely understood. We hypothesize that hip musculature size and quality are related to mortality following hip fracture. This study aims... Show moreBackgroundMortality following hip fracture is high and incompletely understood. We hypothesize that hip musculature size and quality are related to mortality following hip fracture. This study aims to investigate the associations of hip muscle area and density from hip CT with death following hip fracture as well as assess the dependence of this association on time after hip fracture. MethodsIn this secondary analysis of the prospectively collected CT images and data from the Chinese Second Hip Fracture Evaluation, 459 patients were enrolled between May 2015 and June 2016 and followed up for a median of 4.5 years. Muscle cross-sectional area and density were measured of the gluteus maximus (G.MaxM) and gluteus medius and minimus (G.Med/MinM) and aBMD of the proximal femur. The Goutallier classification (GC) was used for qualitatively assessing muscle fat infiltration. Separate Cox models were used to predict mortality risk adjusted for covariates. ResultsAt the end of the follow-up, 85 patients were lost, 81 patients (64% women) had died, and 293 (71% women) survived. The mean age of non-surviving patients at death (82.0 +/- 8.1 years) was higher than that of the surviving patients (74.4 +/- 9.9 years). The Parker Mobility Score and the American Society of Anesthesiologists scores of the patients that died were respectively lower and higher compared to the surviving patients. Hip fracture patients received different surgical procedures, and no significant difference in the percentage of hip arthroplasty was observed between the dead and the surviving patients (P = 0.11). The cumulative survival was significantly lower for patients with low G.MaxM area and density and low G.Med/MinM density, independent of age and clinical risk scores. The GC grades were not associated with the mortality after hip fracture. Muscle density of both G.MaxM (adj. HR 1.83; 95% CI, 1.06-3.17) and G.Med/MinM (adj. HR 1.98; 95% CI, 1.14-3.46) was associated with mortality in the 1st year after hip fracture. G.MaxM area (adj. HR 2.11; 95% CI, 1.08-4.14) was associated with mortality in the 2nd and later years after hip fracture. ConclusionOur results for the first time show that hip muscle size and density are associated with mortality in older hip fracture patients, independent of age and clinical risk scores. This is an important finding to better understand the factors contributing to the high mortality in older hip fracture patients and to develop better future risk prediction scores that include muscle parameters. Show less
Over the last two decades there have been significant de-velopments in the pharmacotherapy of osteoporosis. The thera-peutic arsenal has expanded with monoclonal antibodies which have been... Show moreOver the last two decades there have been significant de-velopments in the pharmacotherapy of osteoporosis. The thera-peutic arsenal has expanded with monoclonal antibodies which have been developed based on discoveries of the molecular mechanisms underlying bone resorption and bone formation. Denosumab, the antibody binding RANKL, inhibits bone resorp-tion, and romosozumab, the antibody binding sclerostin, inhibits bone resorption and stimulates bone formation as well. Both an-tibodies have shown potent anti-fracture efficacy in randomized clinical trials and this review will discuss the preclinical and clinical studies focusing on the effects on bone mass. After discontinuation of these antibodies, bone mineral density quickly returns to baseline and in the case of denosumab, discontinuation can not only induce rebound bone loss, but also the occurrence of vertebral fractures. Therefore, sequential antiresorptive therapy to maintain bone mass gains and anti-fracture efficacy is of utmost importance and will also be discussed in this review. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/). Show less
