A Finnish cohort study of 644 older men with hip fracture found that pre-fracture fecal incontinence independently predicted one-year mortality, while urinary incontinence was strongly linked to ...

A large UK Biobank cohort study finds that higher red blood cell distribution width, a routine blood count measure, is associated with an increased risk of hip fracture in older adults.

Fracture is another word for broken bone. A hip fracture is a break at the top of your upper leg bone. Hip fractures can occur at any age, but most occur from a fall in older adults. Hip fractures are ...

Certain metabolites—small molecules that are made or used when the body breaks down food and that reflect a person’s metabolic activity—are associated with reduced risk of hip fracture, according to a ...

The mortality numbers nobody tells you at discharge A hip fracture kills more older adults than most cancers that get far ...

Patients who are status post hip fracture surgery had a higher incidence of severe UTI than those in their comorbidity-, age-, and sex-matched control group. Prevention of severe UTI can improve the ...

The news an elderly relative has broken a hip tends to sound alarm bells, perhaps more than breaking another bone would. That's because a hip fracture dramatically increases an older person's risk of ...

NASA researchers identified a specific link between long-term microgravity exposure and increased hip fracture risk in ...

A hip fracture is a break in the top of your upper leg bone near the hip joint, just below the waist. The type of hip fracture depends on which part of the bone breaks. Most hip fractures are caused ...