The Diabetes Blog

The risk of hip fracture is 20 per cent higher in the elderly with diabetes, according to a study conducted by the Canadian researchers. Experts’ this postulation is based on the results that sprang out after tracking more than 197,000 residents of Ontario with diabetes who were 66 or older. As per the findings of this study, a majority of diabetics used to live in poorer neighborhoods and prescribed at least one drug that increased the likelihood of falls or decreased bone mineral density, increasing susceptibility to bone fracture. What makes diabetics more prone to hip fracture is still not very clear even to these researchers. However, they believe that it could give rise to a serious problem because just in the last decade, in Ontario alone, there has been noticed an increase of 70 per cent in patients with diabetes. If we look at the findings of this study from a wide perspective then they look grimmer because Ontario is not the only part to see this much of rise in diabetes cases, in fact, the swelling tide of diabetes seems to have engulfed the whole world. And if we look at this situation from the eyes of this study, then we could say that a big part of world population (which is suffering from diabetes) is at higher risk of hip fracture. Actually, this is not the first study to show that diabetes is linked to bone fracture; since several studies conducted earlier have also done the same. Interestingly, where some studies have blamed diabetes for weaker bones at the same time some studies have blamed drugs, used by diabetics, for weaker bones. Therefore, further study on this subject would help bringing out the truth more precisely. Image credit: Pjclaw Via: CBC