Table 6.
Impact of comorbidity on heal rate (HR) in the fresh fracture cohort
| Overall | Heal | Elderly | Heal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comorbidity | Healed | Failed | Rate | Lower CI | Upper CI | Healed | Failed | Rate |
| All fractures | 4,032 | 158 | 96.2% | 95.7% | 96.8% | 554 | 28 | 95.2% |
| Current smokers | 652 | 35 | 94.9% | 93.3% | 96.5% | 81 | 1 | 98.8% |
| Diabetes | 224 | 11 | 95.3% | 92.6% | 98.0% | 110 | 4 | 96.5% |
| Hypertension | 188 | 7 | 96.3% | 93.6% | 99.0% | 83 | 2 | 97.6% |
| Vascular insufficiency | 107 | 5 | 95.5% | 91.7% | 99.4% | 56 | 2 | 96.6% |
| Osteoporosis | 80 | 5 | 94.1% | 89.1% | 99.1% | 57 | 5 | 91.9% |
| Cancer | 77 | 4 | 95.1% | 90.3% | 99.8% | 50 | 2 | 96.2% |
| Cardiovascular disease | 60 | 2 | 97.2% | 93.3% | 100.0% | 54 | 2 | 96.4% |
| Alcoholism | 68 | 3 | 95.8% | 91.1% | 100.0% | 10 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Renal disease | 44 | 1 | 97.8% | 93.5% | 100.0% | 11 | 1 | 91.7% |
| Rheumatoid arthritis | 36 | 4 | 90.0% | 80.7% | 99.3% | 21 | 3 | 87.5% |
The overall heal rate (HR) includes all patients, even if they have comorbidities or are older than age 60. Then various comorbidities are broken out, for the entire fresh fracture cohort overall, and for the elderly cohort (≥60 years of age) specifically. Bolded HR numbers are above the CI associated with “All fractures.” Italic HR numbers are below the CI associated with “All fractures.” In the “Elderly” group, bolded HR numbers are above the CI for the corresponding fracture in the whole cohort, while italic HR numbers are below the CI for the corresponding fracture in the whole cohort. Elderly HR is comparable to the HR of the overall sample.