Once-a-Year Bone Drug Lowers Fracture Risk

Here is the shocking part of this article:

"An estimated 345,000 Americans are hospitalized each year with a hip fracture, and as the Baby Boomers age, that number is certain to grow.

According to an accompanying editorial, 36 percent of patients who have sustained a hip fracture will die within two years of the incident. These individuals are also five to 10 times more likely to suffer another hip fracture."

To have a 36 percent mortality rate within 2 years of a fracture is just sad.

 

 

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Once-a-Year Bone Drug Lowers Fracture Risk

via MedicineNet Daily News on 9/19/07

Title: Once-a-Year Bone Drug Lowers Fracture Risk
Category: Health News
Created: 9/19/2007 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/19/2007

 

 

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