This study was conducted to investigate the effects of depression and antidepressant
medications on hip fracture. The database of the Taiwan National Health Insurance with
medical records of more than 1,000,000 individuals was searched for patients who had hip
fracture with or without depression from 1998 to 2009. Patients with the following conditions
were excluded: hip fracture due to cancer or traffic accidents, hip fracture that occurred
before the diagnosis of depression, and use of antidepressants before the diagnosis of …