Less education linked to higher death risk after hip fracture surgery
Patients with under nine years of education had adjusted odds of death within two years 1.25 times those with more than 12 years.
2 years
Edited by Boris Djordjevic · AgingResearch.News
A registry-based observational cohort study examined 58,641 patients who underwent acute hip fracture surgery in Sweden during 2015–2020. Their median age was 83, and 66.1% were women. Overall, 7.9% died within 30 days and 35.3% within two years.
Education showed the strongest association with mortality. Adjusted odds of death rose stepwise as education decreased, with the association most pronounced at two years. The abstract reported a 6.3% absolute difference in two-year death risk between the highest and lowest education groups. The authors supported considering individual socioeconomic factors in hip fracture care at the population level.
Why it matters
Survival after hip fracture surgery matters to an older population. The study addressed whether social and economic circumstances are linked to differences in survival during recovery and beyond.
Caveats
This observational study could not establish cause and effect, and its findings concern patients undergoing acute hip fracture surgery in Sweden. The abstract’s wording left the direction of the reported absolute-risk difference unclear.
The paper
Linköping University
British Journal of Anaesthesia, Aug 5, 2026, Open access
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