Women Face Higher Short-Term Mortality Following Hip Fractures

New information out of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research reveals that women in their seventies face a doubled risk of dying within a year of breaking a hip.

The researchers also found that short-term mortality (dying within a year) for women in their eighties tripled for otherwise healthy women who suffered hip fractures, but overall mortality for this group remained the same.

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