Hip and back fractures increase mortality rates in older adults

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 04:07 in Health & Medicine

If you are 50 or older and you break your hip, you have a one in four chance of dying within five years. Break your back, and you have a one in six chance of dying that soon, says a McMaster University study...

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