Testosterone Deficiency As a Risk Factor for Hip Fractures in Men: A Case-Control Study

The objective of this study was to determine whether decreased gonadal function is a risk factor for hip fracture in elderly men. The study was a matched case-control study performed at an in-hospital orthopedic service at a semi-rural and academic tertiary care center. The patients were seventeen men who presented with hip fractures after simple falls over a 10-month period, 11 men with a history of hip fractures in the preceding 25months, and 28 randomly selected age-, race-, and living status-matched control subjects (mean age 73years). Serum pooled total testosterone (9.2±5.5nmol/L vs. 12.8±5.4nmol/L; p