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ba0003pp228 | Osteoporosis: evaluation and imaging | ECTS2014

Changes of health-related quality of life 36 months after vertebral and distal forearm fracture: results from Icuros in Lithuania

Tamulaitiene Marija , Sinkeviciene Violeta , Kalibatiene Danute , Borgstrom Fredrik , Alekna Vidmantas

Objective: To evaluate the changes of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) 36 months after fracture in patients from Lithuania following vertebral or forearm fractures.Material and methods: Patients aged 50 years and older, with low energy trauma clinical vertebral fracture (VFx) or distal forearm fracture (FFx), enrolled and observed for 18 months in the International Costs and Utilities Related to Osteoporotic fractures Study (ICUROS) in Lithuania, w...