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Hip Fracture
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Hip
Fracture - This
short review focuses on hip fracture and its assessment (see diagram
below), since for the patient it carries the most serious clinical
consequences of all fractures and is associated with the major
economic burden on the health care system.
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Vitamin
D Deficiency May Increase Risk of Hip Fracture in Older Women - Underlying
vitamin D deficiency in post-menopausal women is associated with
increased risk of hip fracture, according to investigators at Brigham
and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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