Elderly women with 'dowager's hump' may be at higher risk of earlier death

Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 15:35 in Health & Medicine

Hyperkyphosis, or "dowager's hump" ? the exaggerated forward curvature of the upper spine seen commonly in elderly women ? may predict earlier death in women whether or not they have vertebral osteoporosis, UCLA researchers have found.

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