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Abdullah Altuwairqi1, Rahaf Sameer Tammar2, Ragad Sameer Tammar2
1Orthopedics and Traumatology, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, SAU.
Abstract:
Introduction Hip fractures are common in the elderly, especially with vitamin D deficiency. Currently, there is a paucity of case-control studies regarding the relationship between the time until full weight bearing of hip fractures and vitamin D levels in Saudi Arabia. Our aim is to determine time until full weight bearing of hip fractures in patients with vitamin D deficiency compared with normal vitamin D in the age of 50 and above. Materials and methods This was a hospital-based non-interventional retrospective case-control study conducted among patients with hip fractures aged 50 years and above between January 2017 and April 2021. It was done at King Abdulaziz university hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A review of the medical records and operation records for the relative operation was done to check patients' lab values around the time of the operation and following the documented healing process. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 26 (IBM Inc., Armonk, New York). Correlation analysis was performed using Spearman's test, and a p-value of 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results In our research, 36 patients were participants in the study, with about two-thirds (22) of the participants being female (61.1%). 52.8% of the participants had an age ranging from 71-80 years, with a mean age of 75.66 ± 9.53 years. A non-significant relationship between the time until full weight bearing of hip fractures and the vitamin d levels is demonstrated. By that, the research question was disproved by the given data. Conclusion The time until full weight bearing of hip fracture is not significantly related to vitamin D level. In this study, the majority of patients (77.1%) were vitamin D deficient, which raises our concern for vitamin D deficiency to be a major health problem in our society. However, this evidence should be further assessed in larger trials. Additional studies on this topic are recommended to be done.
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