Table 7.
Impact of current medication use on heal rate (HR) in the fresh fracture cohort
| Overall | Heal | Elderly | Heal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medication | Healed | Failed | Rate | Lower CI | Upper CI | Healed | Failed | Rate |
| No medications at all | 1,765 | 61 | 96.7% | 95.8% | 97.5% | 228 | 11 | 95.4% |
| Non-NSAID analgesic | 301 | 19 | 94.1% | 91.5% | 96.7% | 48 | 4 | 92.3% |
| Prescription NSAIDs | 159 | 14 | 91.9% | 87.8% | 96.0% | 40 | 4 | 90.9% |
| Anticoagulants | 107 | 9 | 92.2% | 87.4% | 97.1% | 54 | 2 | 96.4% |
| Non-prescription NSAIDs | 104 | 3 | 97.2% | 94.1% | 100.0% | 31 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Steroids | 93 | 8 | 92.1% | 86.8% | 97.3% | 30 | 5 | 85.7% |
| Antibiotics | 80 | 4 | 95.2% | 90.7% | 99.8% | 14 | 2 | 87.5% |
| Insulin | 75 | 6 | 92.6% | 86.9% | 98.3% | 36 | 2 | 94.7% |
| Calcium channel blockers | 62 | 6 | 91.2% | 84.4% | 97.9% | 37 | 3 | 92.5% |
The overall average includes all patients, even if they use medications or are older than age 60. Then various medications are broken out, for the entire fresh fracture cohort overall, and for the elderly cohort (≥60 years of age) specifically. The HR for each comorbidity in shown, together with the upper and lower 95% confidence interval (CI) for each HR estimate. Italic HR numbers are below the CI associated with “All fractures.” In the “Elderly” group, italic HR numbers are below the CI for the corresponding fracture in the whole cohort. Elderly HR was comparable to the HR of the overall sample.