Objectives: To analyse the prevalence of hip and lower limb fracture in the city of Aracaju (Sergipe) using data from the Fundação de Beneficência Hospital de Cirurgia from June 2008/2009 and comparing with results from studies of same nature developed by Komatsu (2004) in 1994/1995 in the city of Marilia (São Paulo) and Muniz et al (2007) in 2003/2005 in Paraná. Methods: Fracture types, age and gender were ana...