In the case of a hip fracture, operating on a patient with dementia can be a difficult decision to make. Indeed, surgery exposes patients with dementia to a higher mortality rate, more delirium and ...

Researchers recently evaluated three tools to help predict risk of hip fracture in adults aged 80 and older, a population that accounts for 70% of hip fractures in the United States. The three ...

Gabapentinoids -- pregabalin and gabapentin -- were tied to increased hip fracture risk in older adults. Risks were high for people with chronic kidney disease or significant frailty. Odds of hip ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “There is abundant evidence that men are not adequately screened for osteoporosis, and those with osteoporosis ...

When you’re assessing older women for the risk of hip fracture, renal dysfunction is a red flag. That’s the message from a multi-center study of 300 randomly selected women aged 65 and older who ...

Hip fractures, often a result of a fall, are the most serious type of osteoporotic fracture because they are accompanied by considerable pain, loss of muscle and bone strength, reduced mobility and ...

Hip Skeleton on blue background with clipping path. Bones are the very foundation of our bodies, the scaffolding upon which everything else depends for support and structure. But with age, bones ...

A new article in JBMR Plus, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that patient survival rates after hip or other bone fractures can be very poor. While patients and their families may ...

Despite the risk of subsequent fractures in patients with osteoporosis, only approximately 20% of patients nationally receive the appropriate evaluation and treatment following a fragility fracture. A ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The risk for a subsequent hip fracture is similar for adults with or without diabetes. Adults with type 1 ...

November 12 - Los Angeles Clippers veteran guard Bradley Beal has been diagnosed with a left hip fracture, the team revealed Wednesday and will miss the remainder of the season. Beal, who had been ...