Risk Of Falling Is Overlooked As The Major Cause Of Fractures In The Elderly

An elderly person’s risk of falling is too often overlooked when trying to prevent them from getting serious fractures, for instance of the hip or wrist, according to an article published in this week’s BMJ. The Finnish authors says studies show that if the focus were to be switched to how at risk someone is of falling, rather than whether they have the bone disease osteoporosis, then considerably more fractures in elderly people could be prevented.

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Filed under: Bones on January 29th, 2008