Is COVID-19 affecting the incidence of hip fractures?

Injury. 2020 Oct;51(10):2329. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2020.07.018. Epub 2020 Jul 8.

Authors

José Carlos Minarro¹, Carlos Zamorano-Moyano², María Teresa Urbano-Luque³, Antonio P Arenas-de Larriva⁴, Alberto Izquierdo-Fernández², Rafael Quevedo-Reinoso²

Affiliations

¹ Orthopaedics and Traumatology Department, University Hospital Reina Sofía, Calle Buenos Aires 5B, 14006 Córdoba, Spain. Electronic address: josecarlosdiaz10@gmail.com.
² Orthopaedics and Traumatology Department, University Hospital Reina Sofía, Calle Buenos Aires 5B, 14006 Córdoba, Spain.
³ Animal experimentation service (SAEX), University of Cordoba, Spain.
⁴ Internal Medicine Department, University Hospital Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Hip Fractures / epidemiology*
Hip Fractures / surgery
Incidence
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Prospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2
Spain