Burden of hip fracture using disability-adjusted life-years: a pooled analysis of prospective cohorts in the CHANCES consortium

• Main Authors: Nikos Papadimitriou, MSc (Author), Dr Konstantinos K Tsilidis, PhD (Author), Philippos Orfanos, PhD (Author), Vassiliki Benetou, MD (Author), Evangelia E Ntzani, PhD (Author), Isabelle Soerjomataram, PhD (Author), Annemarie Künn-Nelen, PhD (Author), Ulrika Pettersson-Kymmer, PhD (Author), Sture Eriksson, PhD (Author), Prof Hermann Brenner, PhD (Author), Ben Schöttker, PhD (Author), Kai-Uwe Saum, PhD (Author), Bernd Holleczek, PhD (Author), Prof Francine D Grodstein, ScD (Author), Diane Feskanich, ScD (Author), Nicola Orsini, PhD (Author), Prof Alicja Wolk, PhD (Author), Andrea Bellavia, PhD (Author), Prof Tom Wilsgaard, PhD (Author), Lone Jørgensen, PhD (Author), Prof Paolo Boffetta, MD (Author), Prof Dimitrios Trichopoulos, PhD (Author), Prof Antonia Trichopoulou, MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: No studies have estimated disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) lost due to hip fractures using real-life follow-up cohort data. We aimed to quantify the burden of disease due to incident hip fracture using DALYs in prospective cohorts in the CHANCES consortium, and to calculate populat...