Limited reimbursement for bone density assessment along with fears about medications that prevent fractures may be to blame.
Incidence of hip fractures declined steadily among U.S. women from 1995 to 2005 — but has this trend been sustained? Investigators used Medicare data to assess rates of hip fracture from 2002 through 2015 in >2 million women.
In analysis standardized to the 2014 age distribution, incidence of hip fractures declined linearly from 2002 through 2012, then leveled off from 2012 to 2015. Among women aged 65 to74, hip fracture rates rose after 2012.
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Comment
As the authors note, the earlier decline in hip fracture incidence in the U.S. proba…