BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic factors may influence changes in @entity173 ( @entity173 ) incidence over time. We analysed @entity173 temporal trends during the Bone and Joint Decade in Portugal (BJD-Portugal), 2000-2010, by regional socioeconomic status (SES), sex and age. METHODS: We selected registers of @entity1 aged 50+ years with @entity173 (International Classification of Diseases, V.9-Clinical Modification, ICD9-CM) caused by @entity130 of low/moderate energy, from the National Hospital Discharge Database. Annual time series of age-specific incidence rates were calculated by sex and regional SES (deprived, medium, affluent). Generalised additive models were fitted to identify shape/turning points in temporal trends. RESULTS: We selected 96   905 @entity173 (77.3% in @entity1 ). @entity1 were older than @entity1 at admission (81.2  8.5 vs 78.2  10.1   years-old, p<0.001). For @entity1 65-79   years, a continuously decreasing trend (1.7%/year) only in affluent and increasing trends (3.3-3.4%/year) after 2006/2007 in medium and deprived was observed. For @entity1 , trends were stable or increased in almost all age/SES groups (only two decreasing periods). For the oldest @entity1 , all SES present similar trends: turning points around 2003 (initiating decreasing periods: 1.8-2.9%/year) and around 2007 (initiating increasing periods: 3.7-3.3%/year). CONCLUSIONS: There were SES-sex-age inequalities in temporal trends during BJD-Portugal: marked SES inequalities among @entity1 aged 65-79   years (a persistent, decreasing trend only in the affluent) vanished among the oldest @entity1 ; the same was not observed in @entity1 , for them, there were almost no declining periods; @entity1 aged >= 80   years, presented increasing trends around 2007, as in most deprived/age/sex groups. Despite some successful periods of decreasing trends, incidence rates did not improve overall in almost all age groups and both sexes.

Marked socioeconomic inequalities in XXXX incidence rates during the Bone and Joint Decade (2000-2010) in Portugal: age and sex temporal trends in a population based study.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'patients', 'Women', 'men'] @entity173 :: ('MESH:D006620', 'Disease') :: ['hip fracture', 'HF'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['traumas']
@entity173 :: (MESH:D006620,Disease) :: ['hip fracture']
