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. 2008 Jul-Aug;208(7):353-5.
doi: 10.1157/13124315.

[Morbidity-mortality in nonagenarians with backgrounds of cerebral vascular accident or femur fracture. NonaSantfeliu Study]

[Article in Spanish]
F Formiga  1 , A Ferrer, R Pujol
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[Morbidity-mortality in nonagenarians with backgrounds of cerebral vascular accident or femur fracture. NonaSantfeliu Study]

[Article in Spanish]
F Formiga et al. Rev Clin Esp. 2008 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate in community-dwelling nonagenarians the influence of having previously suffered a stroke or a hip fracture.

Methods: 128 nonagenarians (mean age was 93.5 +/- 3.1 years) who were living in their own homes were evaluated prospectively. We evaluated total mortality and functional decline after two years of follow-up.

Results: Forty-eight patients (37.5%) died, and in 29 (36.2%) of the 80 surviving patients there was a functional decline. In 77 (60.2%) patient a bad clinical course was collected (death or functional decline). In the patients with prior stroke or hip fracture there was a worse overall clinical course (mortality or loss of functionality) than in the remaining patients (p = 0.03).

Conclusions: Community-dwelling nonagenarians with a stroke or hip fracture history underwent a worse clinical course (mortality and functional decline) after two years of follow-up.

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