Zeitschrift für Trauma und Behandlung

Epidemiological, Demographic Risk Factors and Complications of Traumatic Humeral Fractures among Patients in Baghdad

Abstract

Saman Mohammad Abdul Razaq

Humeral fractures are among the most common fractures in the elderly and in adults. This study aimed to assess the epidemiological; risk factors and complications of traumatic humeral fracture among studied sample. A cross-sectional study was conducted in the outpatient clinics of public hospitals for the period from March to May 2021. The sample size was 178 participants. The sample was randomly selected. As well as demographic information was recorded and compared with the records. Continuous variables were reported by mean ± standard deviation; chi-square test was used for Univariate analysis and manova, mvreg for multivariate analysis. Out of one hundred and seventy eight of participants’ with humeral fracture, the mean age was 49.2 with SD 1.21 years. 55.06% were male cases and 44.94% were female; 48.02% of them had a junior school; 38.98% had a history of smoking and 21.91% of them had a history of alcohol consumption. 45.51% of them had overweight BMI. There is significant association has been found between the smoking history and humeral fracture complication with p. value less than 0.05. Our results indicated that the patients with age over 41 years had greater risk of humeral fracture than other groups (odds ratio OR=1.57; 95% CI 0.971 to 5.919). Unemployed Patients had greater risk of humeral fracture than those who has a job (OR=10.9; 95% CI 5.047 to 13.661). There are signification association has been found between age, occupation, BMI, VD supplements and smoking history with gender at the p-value less than 0.05. We need further research on this field to detect the morbidity and mortality among cases with traumatic humeral fracture complications.