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Title: In Elderly Women, Hip Fractures Often Follow Arm Breaks (HealthDay)
Post by: riky on March 02, 2009, 09:02:17 PM
In Elderly Women, Hip Fractures Often Follow Arm Breaks
    (HealthDay)

 


HealthDay - MONDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly women who suffer a
broken upper arm are five times more likely than normal to break a hip
within a year after the arm fracture, a finding from a new study that
might help in efforts to prevent both types of fractures.


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