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Tag: hip fractures
Hip Fracture Recovery Better If You Are Healthy
Seniors who have a hip fracture or another serious fall injury are significantly more likely to recover if they had little or no disabilities before the accident, according to a new study. Researchers from the Yale School of Medicine assessed more than 100 seniors who had fallen within the past...
Milk and Yogurt Better for Bone Health Than Cream (VIDEO)
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Milk and Yogurt Better for Bone Health Than Cream
Cream is not as effective as milk or yogurt in promoting bone health and combating osteoporosis.åÊåÊIn the Framingham Offspring Study, 3,212 participants completed a food frequency questionnaire and were followed for hip fracture for 12 years. 2,506 participants had scans to see if they had decreased bone mineral density. The...
Hip Fractures and Sleeping Pills – Deadly Combo (VIDEO)
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Hip Fractures and Sleeping Pills – Deadly Combo
Following a Medicare Part D change in 2006, physicians started prescribing sleeping pills such as Ambien, Lunesta and Sonata for nursing home residents with insomnia. The newer sleeping pills were thought to be safer for residents than benzodiazepine hypnotics, researchers noted. But in a study by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
Cataract Surgery Reduces Incidence of Hip Fracture
Maybe this is one of those “really you needed a study for this?” posts. University of California, Los Angeles researchers found that Medicare beneficiaries who had cataract surgery had lower odds of hip fracture within 1 year after surgery compared with patients who had not undergone cataract surgery. Think about...
Hip Fractures in Women Deadly
Prevent falls. Prevent hip fractures.@Don Farral, Getty Images Hip fractures in women ages 65 to 79 are linked to in an increase in short-term mortality according to an ongoing Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research report. Investigators followed 1,116 women who had hip fractures and compared them with about 4,500...
Risk of Death from Hip Fractures Markedly Increased for Elders
From Health Day – Belgian researchers have found that older men and women who break a hip are five to eight times more likely to die in the first three months after the fracture. The main problem is not the repair of the fracture but the toll it takes on...
Aggressive Osteoporosis Treatment Can Reduce Hip Fractures by 37%
According to a study conducted by Kaiser Permanente, proactive measures can reduce hip fracture rates by an average of 37.2 percent — and as much as 50 percent — among those at risk. In the study published November 3 in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, more than 625,000...