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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Rev Bras Ortop (Sao Paulo) 2023; 58(01): 157-163
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1756328
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Trauma

Use of the SARC-F Score as an Aid in Fragility Fractures Prevention[*]

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Carlos Augusto Nunes Martini 
1   Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia (IOT), Joinville, SC, Brasil
,
Carolina Souza Weigert 
1   Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia (IOT), Joinville, SC, Brasil
,
Anderson Carlos Bigolin Stiegemaier 
1   Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia (IOT), Joinville, SC, Brasil
,
Ana Paula Ribeiro Bonilauri Ferreira 
2   Departamento Científico, Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia (IOT), Joinville, SC, Brasil
,
Ellen Liceras Gonçalves 
3   Universidade da Região de Joinville, UNIVILLE, Joinville, SC, Brasil
,
Sandro Fortes Valle 
3   Universidade da Região de Joinville, UNIVILLE, Joinville, SC, Brasil
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Abstract

Objective The present study aimed to relate the strength, assistance with walking, rising from a chair, climbing stairs, and falls (SARC-F) score with the presence or absence of fragility fracture in the population over 60 years of age.

Methods The risk of sarcopenia was determined through the application of the SARC-F questionnaire, and the patients were divided into 2 groups, according to the occurrence or not of fragility fracture (n = 100).

Results Thirty-two cases of distal radius fractures and eighteen cases of proximal femur fractures were identified. A higher score on the SARC-F is determinant between having or not a fragility fracture, estimating that for each point in the score there is a 70% increase in the chance of a patient having a fracture, regardless of age, gender, and body mass index (BMI).

Conclusion There was a direct correlation between a higher score on the SARC-F and an increase in the chance of fragility fracture.

Keywords

risk factors - osteoporotic fractures - osteogenesis imperfecta - osteoporosis - sarcopenia

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There was no financial support from public, commercial, or non-profit sources.


* Work developed at the Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Hospital Municipal São José, Joinville, SC, Brazil.




Publication History

Received: 26 January 2022

Accepted: 26 July 2022

Article published online:
18 October 2022

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