Epidemiology of fractures and reduction of mineral density of bone tissue in the population of the industrial city of the Middle Volga Region

The retrospective epidemiologic investigation in Otradnoe, Samara region was carried out to study the hip and forearm fracture rate in persons over 60 within 1995—2000. The hip fracture rate in men varied between 32,0 and 113,9 for 100000 of population (on the average 72,3), in women - between 52,9 and 152,5 (on the average 90,2). In women hip fractures were found 1,9 more often than in men. The growth of the hip fracture rate was noted in women over 60, in men — over 70. The fracture rate of forearm in women was five times higher than in men. The mineral density of calcaneus bone tissue was studied in 220 men and 113 women by ultrasound densitometry. The pronounced tendency to the increase with aging of the number of persons with the decreased mineral density of bone tissue was noted.