Fall-related hip fractures

摘要

Drs Formiga and Lopez-Soto and their colleagues have helpfully drawn our attention to their research on hip fracture risk factors (1,2) in which they report an association between polypharmacy and psychotropic drug use and risk of fall-related hip fractures. As these and other authors have indicated, studies of the association between psychotropic drug use and fractures or other injuries have produced somewhat conflicting results (3,4), in part due to methodological challenges (4). Further research in this area is therefore welcome, and we hope that Drs Formiga and Lopez-Soto and their colleagues, as well as other researchers, will continue this line of investigation.