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Comparative Study
. 1985 Apr;56(2):158-60.
doi: 10.3109/17453678508994345.

Increasing incidence of forearm fractures. A comparison of epidemiologic patterns 25 years apart

U Bengnér, O Johnell
Comparative Study

Increasing incidence of forearm fractures. A comparison of epidemiologic patterns 25 years apart

U Bengnér et al. Acta Orthop Scand. 1985 Apr.

Abstract

During 1980 and 1981, 1914 fractures of the distal forearm occurred in Malmö, Sweden. The age-specific incidence peaked in childhood and there was a large increase in women after the age of 50; in men there was a smaller increase after the age of 70. In comparison with the Alffram & Bauer (1962) study of the same population in 1953-57, the age-specific incidence in elderly women and men has almost doubled. There was almost the same incidence of shaft fracture of the ulna or radius as 25 years ago.

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