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Using Portuguese hospital registers (2000–2002) we calculated age-standardized incidence rates of hip fractures. Spatial clusters of high incidence rates were found, with annual averages (per 100,000 inhabitants) varying from 154.4 to 572.2 and 77.3 to 231.5 for women and men, respectively. Geographic inequalities in the occurrence of hip fractures were also found.
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Geographic information systems Hip fractures Osteoporosis Spatial analysis Spatial clusters Spatial dependency
Citation
de Pina, M.F., Alves, S.M., Barbosa, M. et al. Hip fractures cluster in space: an epidemiological analysis in Portugal. Osteoporos Int 19, 1797–1804 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-008-0623-1