Mujeres afectas de fractura de cadera y su relación con el estado nutricional en el área de salud de Cáceres
- Costa Fernández, María Carmen
- Jesús María Lavado García Director
- Juan Diego Pedrera Zamorano Director
Defence university: Universidad de Extremadura
Fecha de defensa: 20 March 2014
- Luis Moreno Corral Chair
- José María Morán García Secretary
- José Ignacio Calvo Arenillas Committee member
- María Luz Canal Macías Committee member
- Fidel Ortega Ortiz-Apodaca Committee member
Type: Thesis
Abstract
Osteoporosis is a systemic illness of the ske leton characterized by a low bone mineral density and deterioration of bone tissue micro-architecture, with a consequent increase of bone fragility and susceptibility of suffering fracture. Hip fracture is the most serious of osteoporotic fractures in morbimortality terms, functional inability and socioeconomics costs. The aim of this study is to clarify the possible role of nutritional state on bone mass in postmenopausal women. In this sense, all women will be recruited on the admitted population whit hip fracture, carried out in Complejo Hospitalario San Pedro de Alcántara of the Area of Health of Caceres (Spain. To all women included in the study we will carried out a complete clinical history and a bone densitometry by quantitative bone ultrasound at phalanx. To know risk factors implied in osteoporosis we will carried out studies of nutritional status, clinical variables, anthropometrics variables (corporal composition by electrical bio-impedance) and habits and lifestyles.