A cohort study of 4,190 patients treated with low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS): findings in the elderly versus all patients

Table 7 Impact of current medication use on heal rate (HR) in the fresh fracture cohort

	Overall		Heal			Elderly		Heal
Medication	Healed	Failed	Rate	Lower CI	Upper CI	Healed	Failed	Rate
No medications at all	1,765	61	96.7%	95.8%	97.5%	228	11	95.4%
Non-NSAID analgesic	301	19	94.1%	91.5%	96.7%	48	4	92.3%
Prescription NSAIDs	159	14	91.9%	87.8%	96.0%	40	4	90.9%
Anticoagulants	107	9	92.2%	87.4%	97.1%	54	2	96.4%
Non-prescription NSAIDs	104	3	97.2%	94.1%	100.0%	31	0	100.0%
Steroids	93	8	92.1%	86.8%	97.3%	30	5	85.7%
Antibiotics	80	4	95.2%	90.7%	99.8%	14	2	87.5%
Insulin	75	6	92.6%	86.9%	98.3%	36	2	94.7%
Calcium channel blockers	62	6	91.2%	84.4%	97.9%	37	3	92.5%

The overall average includes all patients, even if they use medications or are older than age 60. Then various medications are broken out, for the entire fresh fracture cohort overall, and for the elderly cohort (≥60 years of age) specifically. The HR for each comorbidity in shown, together with the upper and lower 95% confidence interval (CI) for each HR estimate. Italic HR numbers are below the CI associated with “All fractures.” In the “Elderly” group, italic HR numbers are below the CI for the corresponding fracture in the whole cohort. Elderly HR was comparable to the HR of the overall sample.

ISSN: 1471-2474