OBJECTIVES: There is a high mortality with not well understood risk factors after the contralateral hip fracture. The aim of the study was to analyse the 180-day mortality and its risk factors in women with contralateral hip fracture.

METHODS: Women aged 60 years and over treated with primary femoral neck fractures in the year 2000 and suffered from contralateral hip fractures between 01 January 2000 and 31 December 2008 were selected from the database of the Hungarian National Health Insurance Fund. Risk factors as age, comorbidities, type of fracture and surgery, surgical complications, day of hospital admission were analyzed by multinominal logistic and Cox regression analysis (p<0.05). Statistical tests were performed using the SPSS version 19.0.

RESULTS: CONCLUSIONS: Higher age and pertrochanteric fracture type proved to be risk factors for 180-day mortality after contralateral hip fracture in women over 60 years. There is a need to identify further risk factors in order to develop an efficacious prevention strategy for the reduction of the mortality after the contralaetral hip fractures.