Evaluation of Risk of Development of Fractures in Diabetes Patients: An Observational Study

ABSTRACT

Background: Osteoporosis is mostly common amongstpostmenopausal females, leading to an increased lifetime riskof vertebral, hip and wrist fractures, approximately around40%. The present study evaluated the risk of fracture amongstdiabetic subjects.Materials and Methods: The presence of co-morbiditiesamongst the subjects like osteomyelitis, renal disease anddepression were noted amongst the patients. They weredivided according to the age group. All the fractures weremanaged by closed reduction and immobilized according to thesite of fracture. Chi square test was used for statisticalanalysis. Probability value of less than 0.05 was regarded assignificant.Results: There were 64% males and 36% females amongstnon-diabetics and 65% females and 35% males amongstdiabetics. There were 165 diabetics with osteomyelitiscompared to only 25 diabetics with osteomyelitis. Depressionwas seen amongst 1% non-diabetics and 2% diabetics. Therewere 5 non diabetics and 20 diabetics with renal disease.There was a significant difference between the groups as the pvalue was more than 0.05.Conclusion: In our study there was a significant effect of comorbidities amongst the diabetics that lead to increasedincidence of fracture amongst them.