Knee and Hip Replacements May Be Bad for the Heart (Video)
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Knee and Hip Replacements May Be Bad for the Heart
Knee and Hip Replacements May Be Bad for the Heart Boston-based researchers found that patients who had total knee or hip joint replacement surgery, known as arthroplasty, were at increased risk of heart attack in the early post-operative period. However, findings published in Arthritis & Rheumatology, a journal of the...
Hip Fracture Recovery Better If You Are Healthy (Video)
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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...
Joint Replacement Increases Stroke Risk Fourfold (VIDEO)
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Hip Replacement Increase Stroke Risk Fourfold
Individuals who underwent a total hip replacement had at least four times the risk of suffering a stroke in the weeks immediately following, a Dutch study reported. Researchers say more cautious monitoring after such a procedure is warranted. Hip replacement patients showed nearly five times the rate of ischemic stroke...
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...