Hip fracture is a common and severe disease in elderly patients. The question of the study is whether elderly patients with severe osteopenia have significantly lower levels of the collagen-binding protein Hsp47 than relatively mobile patients due to advanced immobility before the fracture, and whether they participants have a similar risk of VTE to the normal population despite having had a hip fracture and surgery.
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HSP 47
Timeframe: Gene expression analysis will be performed once samples are collected from all participants.