They compared rates between 43,000 individuals with intellectual disability (also known as learning disability) and 215,000 without, throughout the life course. The study, published open access in eClinicalMedicine, found that fracture rates are substantially higher in those with intellectual disability. Comparable rates of hip fracture occur approximately 15 to 25 years earlier in people with intellectual disability. For example, at age 45, women with intellectual disability have a rate of hip fracture similar to 60-year-old women without intellectual disability. Forty-five-year-old men with intellectual disability have similar rates of hip fracture to 70-year-old men without intellectual disability.
