Women who break a hip at increased risk of dying within a year
Monday, September 26, 2011 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
Women ages 65-69 who break a hip are five times more likely to die within a year than women of the same age who don't break a hip, according to a Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research study funded by the National Institutes of Health and published online today in the Archives of Internal Medicine.