Hip Fracture Risk Factors
Studies from Darthmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center add new findings in the area of hip fracture risk factors
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 23rd, 2009
Fresh data on hip fracture are presented in the report 'Body mass index and risk of adverse cardiac events in elderly patients with hip fracture: a population-based study.' In this recent report published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, researchers in Lebanon conducted a study "To determine whether obesity affects cardiac complications after hip fracture repair. A population-based historical study using data from the Rochester Epidemiology Project."
"Olmsted County, Minnesota. All urgent hip fracture repairs between 1988 and 2002. Body mass index (BMI) was categorized as underweight (<18.5 kg/m2), normal-weight (18.5-24.9...
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