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Seasonality of adult fragility fractures and association with weather: 12-year experience of a UK Fracture Liaison Service.
Ogliari, Giulia Marshall, Lindsey Sahota, Opinder
Ogliari, Giulia
Marshall, Lindsey
Sahota, Opinder
Abstract
PURPOSE: To investigate the monthly and seasonal variation in adult osteoporotic fragility fractures and the association with weather. METHODS: 12-year observational study of a UK Fracture Liaison Service (outpatient secondary care setting). Database analyses of the records of adult outpatients aged 50 years and older with fragility fractures. Weather data were obtained from the UK's national Meteorological Office. In the seasonality analyses, we tested for the association between months and seasons (determinants), respectively, and outpatient attendances, by analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey's test. In the meteorological analyses, the determinants were mean temperature, mean daily maximum and minimum temperature, number of days of rain, total rainfall and number of days of frost, per month, respectively. We explored the association of each meteorological variable with outpatient attendances, by regression models. RESULTS: The Fracture Liaison Service recorded 25,454 fragility fractures. We found significant monthly and seasonal variation in attendances for fractures of the: radius or ulna; humerus; ankle, foot, tibia or fibula (ANOVA, all p-values Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Date
2021
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Outpatients, Osteoporotic fractures
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Ogliari, G., Ong, T., Marshall, L. and Sahota, O. (2021) 'Seasonality of adult fragility fractures and association with weather: 12-year experience of a UK Fracture Liaison Service.', Bone, 147, pp. 115916. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2021.115916.