Risco de fraturas ósseas em idosas utilizando a ferramenta FRAX

Abstract

In Brazil, the elderly population it grows in a upward way and with it a new socio demographic and morbimortality profile arises. The Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases had gained prominence and osteoporosis is one of its main representatives, so because of this new scenario, the occurrence of bone fractures becomes more ordinary. In this context, this paper has a quantitative, cross-sectional and descriptive study with the objective of identifying elderly women at increased risk for bone fragility fractures using the FRAX tool. From the 141 elderly women who took part in the study, 131 were low risk, 9 were medium risk and 1 was high risk, in which the majority were white, with a family income and a high level of education, with a average age of 66.78 years. The study shows that body mass, age, previous index fracture and bone mineral density, in addition to the characteristics related to gender, were components that obtained a great association for greater predisposition to fractures. In this case, the results found in the study reinforce the importance of the tool and the analysis of each of its components in order to understand the risk assessment for osteoporotic fractures.