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Mind the hip.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Michael L. Tan
"WAS there a hip fracture?"
That's usually the first question I ask whenever I hear of elderly relatives or family friends having a fall. If a hip fracture is involved, I get quite worried because these injuries can be quite serious.
I thought of writing about this problem because Mama Raquel, the feisty 87-year-old former public school teacher whom I wrote about the other week, had a bad fall a few days ago and sustained a hip fracture.
I'm going to share some basic medical information on hip fractures, taken mainly from the Merck Manual. In the United States alone, there are some 270,000 hip fractures each year, 90 percent of them occurring in people older than 60. I haven't been able to find figures for the Philippines, but I am certain they run into several thousands each year. And what's so alarming about these hip fractures is that people actually die from complications, which I will explain shortly.
Types of hip fractures
- Hip fracture risks go beyond bone loss. (risk factors for hip fractures include...
- Magazine article from: Science News Raloff, Janet July 27, 1996 700+ words
To guard against debilitating hip fractures, the sixth leading cause of death...in the study suffered first-time hip fractures. For that group, a set of four vulnerability...factors proved as reliable at predicting hip fractures as bone density, currently the gold...
- ADVANCE/Metra Assay Demonstrates Predictive Value for Hip Fractures;...
- Press release article from: Business Wire September 11, 1995 700+ words
...be used to assess increased risk of hip fracture. Results from the study were presented...subgroup of 126 women who sustained a hip fracture during the 22-months following enrollment...higher in patients who experienced a hip fracture than age-matched controls by a statistically...
- Hip protector not effective in preventing hip fractures.
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly May 8, 2003 700+ words
...adjusted incidence of hip fracture. The consequences of hip fractures can be severe. During the year following a hip fracture, the death rate is about...developed to try to prevent hip fractures is the hip protector. According...
- Back-to-back hip fractures. (Musculoskeletal).
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Kubetin, Sally Koch June 15, 2002 700+ words
...will have a second hip fracture within 2.5 years...The study of hip fractures in 1,222 Medicaid...will have a repeat hip fracture soon after an initial hip fracture. Startlingly...patients' second hip fractures occurred within...
- Folic acid and vitamin B12 prevent hip fractures.(Literature Review &...
- Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients Gaby, Alan R. July 1, 2005 700+ words
...analysis, after 2 years, hip fractures had occurred in 6 patients...it was calculated that 1 hip fracture would be prevented for every...increases the risk of subsequent hip fracture by 2- to 4-fold. Hip fractures usually occur relatively...
- Identifying risk factors for and preventing hip fractures in elderly patients.
- Magazine article from: AORN Journal Mellinger, Ellice October 1, 1997 700+ words
...surgery for their hip fractures was seven years...has not had a hip fracture. This difference...the risk for hip fractures as nonsmokers...to sustain a hip fracture as a woman with...maternal history of hip fractures). Following...
- Europe developing guidelines to prevent and improve care for hip fractures.
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly February 13, 2003 700+ words
...that is, "cervical hip fractures", constitute 53...the proximal femur (hip fractures) according to the Swedish National Hip Fracture Register linked to...Standardised Audit of Hip Fractures in Europe). The most...
- Check vision to prevent falls, hip fractures in osteoporosis.(Rheumatology)
- Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News Boschert, Sherry October 15, 2005 700+ words
...parent develop a hip fracture have double the risk for hip fracture themselves, compared...parents did not have hip fractures. This is true...doubles the risk for hip fracture regardless of...for humerus or hip fractures, compared with...
