From the 1950s to the 1980s the incidence of hip fractures in women aged 50–64 and cervical fractures in men of the same age In Malmödid not increase, whereas the incidence of trochanteric fracture in men aged 50–64 increased significantly. Significant background factors in men were alcohol misuse, living alone, early retirement, previous fractures, low weight/height ratio and less severe trauma—more in men with trochanteric than in men with cervical fracture. The deviant lifestyle and suspected physical inertia in this group of middle-aged men probably predisposes to osteoporosis and increased fractur
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