An Epidemiologic Study of Cervical and Trochanteric Fractures of the Femur in an Urban Population Analysis of 1,664 Cases with Special Reference to Etiologic Factors

作者：Per-Axel Alffram · 发表于：Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica · 年份：1964 · DOI：10.3109/ort.1964.35.suppl-65.01 · 被引用次数：317 · 研究领域：Hip and Femur Fractures、Hip disorders and treatments、Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries

RISKMalmo is a center of commerce and industry in southern Scandinavia.It is the third largest city of Sweden, having 225,660 inhabitants on January 1, 1960.City authorities maintain detailed records of age, sex, mortality and migration.Hospital services are provided by one general hospital, one mental hospital and one geriatric hospital.These circumstances have made Malmo particularly suitable for previous epidemiological studies of disease, as shown by BIORCK, BLOMQUIST and SIEVERS (1957), SIEVERS and BLOMQUIST (1962), and SIEVERS (1963) in studies on arteriosclerotic heart disease, by BIORCK (1955), BIORCK and HALL (1955), andHALL (1961) in investigations of rheumatic disease, and by BAUER (1960), and ALFFRAM and BAUER (1962) in fracture studies.The World Health Organization has recently chosen Malmo as the site of an extensive investigation of arteriosclerotic heart disease.VIRTAMA, P.: Variations in the ash contents of bones of the extremities.Ann.Med.exp.