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Hip Fracture

Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute Publishes Research in Hip Fracture

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, January 15th, 2012

2012 JAN 15 -- "Elderly patients are at a major risk for a first hip fracture. The decrease in bone mineral density may account for 60-85% of the variability in fracture risk," scientists in Toronto, Canada report.

"Other contributing factors for hip fractures include cognitive impairment as well as impaired mobility and visual depth perception. Dizziness and poor or fair self-perceived health care characteristics are predictive of a second hip fracture. In general, patients over the age of 65 years admitted to a geriatric rehabilitation unit after proximal hip fracture have complex multiple interacting pathologies with 78% having significant co-morbidity....

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