The vascular risk factors in patients with adult ischemic necrosis of the femur head
García Criado, E.; Collantes Estévez, E.; Rodríguez Torronteras, A.; Mesa Ramos, M.; Carpintero Benítez, P.
Anales de Medicina Interna 6(8): 417-420
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0212-7199 PMID: 2491085 Document Number: 330241
The authors studied 23 patients affected by ischemic necrosis of the femoral head, following a common standardised protocol, highlighting the habit (smoking and alcohol intake), lipids and biochemist parameters, as vascular risk factors to sufferers of this disease. They found that with the smoking habit, the high intake of lipids and the excess of alcohol ingestion were significant in the studied group. Neither obesity nor blood hypertension were significant. This supports the vascular etiology of ischemic necrosis of femoral head in adults.