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ArticleEndocrine2025

Correlation between postoperative serum bone metabolism levels and fracture healing in elderly osteoporotic fracture patients.

Xilong Chen, Yansheng Chen

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Xilong ChenDepartment of Orthopedics, Affiliated Hospital of Hunan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changsha, Hunan, China. 13787288707@163.com.
Yansheng ChenZhuzhou TCM Orthopedics Hospital, Zhuzhou, Hunan, China.

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purposeTo investigate the correlation between postoperative serum bone metabolism levels and fracture healing in elderly patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs).

methods110 OVCF patients treated in the hospital from February 2023 to January 2024 were enrolled in this study. The patients were divided into the Normal healing and Delayed healing groups based on postoperative fracture healing. The general information of the two groups was first compared, and then serum levels of procollagen type I N-terminal propeptide (P1NP), osteoprotegerin (OPG), osteocalcin (BGP), and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) were measured in the patients. The correlation between postoperative bone metabolism levels and bone mineral density (BMD) and postoperative Oswestry disability index (ODI) were analyzed using Spearman's correlation test. Independent risk factors affecting postoperative fracture healing time were analyzed using multifactorial logistic regression. The value of serum bone metabolism indexes in assessing delayed postoperative fracture healing was analyzed using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves.

resultsIn the Delayed healing group, the age, proportion of comorbid diabetes mellitus, postoperative ODI, and fracture healing time were significantly higher than those in the Normal healing group. Conversely, the postoperative calcium-phosphorus product, 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D

conclusionsDelayed postoperative fracture healing in elderly OVCF patients might be affected by serum P1NP, OPG, BGP, and ALP levels, and serum bone metabolism levels can be an auxiliary judgment indicator of delayed postoperative fracture healing.

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Bone and BonesFracture HealingFractures, CompressionOsteoporotic FracturesSpinal FracturesAgedAged, 80 and overAlkaline PhosphataseBone DensityDisability EvaluationFemaleGeriatric AssessmentHumansMaleOsteocalcinOsteoprotegerinAlkaline PhosphataseBGLAP protein, humanOsteocalcinOsteoprotegerinPeptide FragmentsProcollagenprocollagen Type I N-terminal peptideTNFRSF11B protein, humanBone metabolismBone mineral densityFracture healingOsteoporotic fractureOswestry disability index

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