Liver disease and mortality among patients with hip fracture: does gender matter?

Abstract

Ling-Yue Zhao, Yi-Jun Luo, Jing Zhu Department of Ambulatory Surgery, Shenzhen Nanshan District People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518052, People’s Republic of ChinaSeveral studies have revealed that the 1-year all-cause mortality rate was about 20% following hip fracture (HF), which highlights the importance of the prognostic impact of other comorbidities on mortality.1Recently, we read with great interest the study by Montomoli et al.2 The authors performed a nationwide cohort study to investigate the prognostic impact of liver disease on 30-day mortality and the 31–365-day mortality among patients with HF. They concluded that relative to patients without liver disease, patients with liver disease, especially those with liver cirrhosis, had higher 30-day mortality and 31–365-day mortality rate following HF. The research appears informative clinically. Thus, there are some issues that that should be addressed regarding this study.View the original paper by Montomoli and colleagues.

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