Sentences with phrase «of fracturing a hip»

If a person doesn't have good balance, this risks falling and hitting the head and for the elderly, the additional risk of fracturing a hip.

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In fact, the researchers found that for certain groups of people — such as those who started out with a certain minimum amount of vitamin D already in their blood — adding more vitamin D was actually tied with a slightly greater risk of hip fractures.

Fig 2 Sex specific multivariable adjusted spline curves of relation between milk intake with time to death from all causes, hip fracture, and any type of fracture.

For each serving the rate of mortality and hip fractures was reduced by 10 - 15 % (P < 0.001).

A meta - analysis of prospective cohort studies concluded that there is no overall association between milk intake and hip fracture risk in women, whereas, in men, evidence was suggestive of a benefit of higher milk intake (31).

Knievel is now in Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital, recovering from compound fractures of the hip and pelvis.

It was an ordinary tackle, but Jackson landed wrong, fracturing his hip socket, shearing cartilage and cutting off the blood supply to the top of the femur.

Jalen Watts - Jackson, the hero of Saturday's Michigan — Michigan State game, had surgery to repair a fractured hip at the University...

Jalen Watts - Jackson, the hero of Saturday's Michigan — Michigan State game, had surgery to repair a fractured hip at the University of Michigan hospital following the game.

A whopping 118G of force was recorded in the impact and remarkably left the Dale Coyne Racing driver «only» needing surgery on a fractured pelvis and hip.

Less than 11 months after having hip - replacement surgery, Jackson looked much like the vibrant, sculpted specimen we were used to seeing before he fractured his left hip socket, shearing cartilage and cutting off the blood supply to the top of the thigh bone, while being tackled in an NFL playoff game on Jan. 13, 1991.

Gradually developing aching pain with activity over the bones of the foot, shin, or hip that persist may represent a stress fracture.

Not only can they get injured around the hip joint (rather than further down the leg — more common) but they can also pull off pieces of bone (i.e. avulsion fractures) when injured.

For women who choose to breastfeed there are lower risks associated with breast and ovarian cancer, less chance of hip fractures and osteoporosis in later life, and the added benefit that it helps with getting back to their pre-baby weight.

It also lowers risk of early breast cancer and post-menopausal hip fractures.

And if your child gets enough calcium from the get - go, there's evidence that he'll have a lower risk of high blood pressure, stroke, colon cancer, and hip fractures later in life.

Bischoff - Ferrari, H. A., Dawson - Hughes, B., Baron, J. A., Kanis, J. A., Orav, E. J., Staehelin, H. B., Kiel, D. P., Burckhardt, P., Henschkowski, J., Spiegelman, D., Li, R., Wong, J. B., Feskanich, D., and Willett, W. C. Milk intake and risk of hip fracture in men and women: a meta - analysis of prospective cohort studies.

Recent research demonstrates that lactating women have an earlier return to prepregnant weight, 41 delayed resumption of ovulation with increased child spacing,42 - 44 improved bone remineralization postpartum45 with reduction in hip fractures in the postmenopausal period, 46 and reduced risk of ovarian cancer47 and premenopausal breast cancer.48

Breastfeeding strengthens a mother's bones, decreasing her risk of hip fractures and osteoporosis after menopause.

«Breastfeeding and other reproductive factors and the risk of hip fractures in elderly woman.»

b) countries that have the highest consumption of milk also have the highest incidence of hip fractures and the worst bone health as they age.

Important health benefits of breastfeeding and lactation are also described for mothers.83 The benefits include decreased postpartum bleeding and more rapid uterine involution attributable to increased concentrations of oxytocin, 84 decreased menstrual blood loss and increased child spacing attributable to lactational amenorrhea, 85 earlier return to prepregnancy weight, 86 decreased risk of breast cancer, 87 — 92 decreased risk of ovarian cancer, 93 and possibly decreased risk of hip fractures and osteoporosis in the postmenopausal period.94 — 96

And some studies suggest that women who breastfeed may have a lower risk of developing specific types of cancer and hip fractures as they age.

«These were for a number of reasons - those to hospital included someone suffering a shortness of breath and someone with a suspected fracture to the hip,» the Met said in a statement.

Sato accepted full responsibility, admitting fabrication of the fraudulent Neurology papers, which reported on the effects of therapies to reduce hip fractures both after stroke and in Parkinson's disease patients.

Yannick Le Manach, M.D., Ph.D., of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and colleagues examined if there was a difference in hospital mortality among patients who underwent hip fracture surgery relative to an elective THR, after adjustment for age, sex, and preoperative medical conditions.

Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture are at substantially higher risk of mortality and medical complications compared with patients undergoing an elective total hip replacement (THR).

«Factors for higher risk of death following hip fracture surgery than hip replacement.»

Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue of JAMA.

Hip fracture may be associated with physiologic processes that are not present in circumstances leading to elective THR and increase the risk of morbidity and mortality following surgery.»

The effect of older age and other medical conditions associated with hip fracture on this increased risk has not been known, according to background information in the article.

«Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more comorbidities than patients who underwent an elective THR, and these differences accounted for some of the difference in outcomes between these groups,» the authors write.

During almost 4 years of observations, the researchers found that women with one copy of s had a 40 % higher risk of wrist, hip, and other bone fractures.

Today a lack of the vitamin has been linked to a host of other maladies, including cancers of the colon, prostate, and breast; tuberculosis; schizophrenia; multiple sclerosis; hip fractures; and chronic pain.

In addition, there were no significant differences between PPI drug substances and the associated risk of hip fracture.

This study involved 46,373 persons who had no history of hip fractures and who had not used benzodiazepines and related drugs during the year preceding the study.

The use of benzodiazepines and related drugs increased the hip fracture risk especially during the first six months of drug use.

Long - term proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use does not increase the risk of hip fracture among persons with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.

The use of benzodiazepines and related drugs increases the risk of hip fracture by 43 % in persons with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.

Additionally, long - term hospital stays exceeding four months after hip fracture were more common in persons with Alzheimer's disease who used benzodiazepines and related drugs at the time of hip fracture than in persons who did not use such drugs.

A 2006 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that people taking long - term, high - dose proton pump inhibitors are 2.65 times as likely as controls to experience hip fractures, possibly because the drugs inhibit calcium absorption.

Long - term use has been linked to withdrawal symptoms, an increased risk of bacterial infection, hip fracture and even possibly nutritional deficiencies.

Furthermore, diets with low inflammatory potential appeared to correspond to lower risk of hip fracture among one subgroup of the study — post-menopausal white women younger than 63.

Nursing improves bone strength (leading to fewer hip fractures in postmenopausal women) and reduces the risk of ovarian cancer and premenopausal breast cancer.

Higher scores were associated with an almost 50 percent larger risk of hip fracture in Caucasian women younger than 63, compared with the risk for women in the group with the lowest inflammatory scores.

«Anti-inflammatory diet could reduce risk of bone loss in women: Study also found diet linked to fewer hip fractures in younger white women.»

A further 39 cases of hip surgery associated with BCIS were also reported to the NRLS during this period, but were not included because it was not clear whether the procedures specifically related to partial hip replacement for fractured neck of femur.

In 2012, 22,000 people in the UK underwent partial hip replacement for a fractured neck of femur, although not all these would have involved the use of cement.

All the cases involved sudden and severe deterioration among patients undergoing partial hip replacement, known as hemiarthroplasty, for fractured neck of femur (broken hip), and associated with the use of cement to help hold the artificial hip joint in place.

Charles Cohen, the chairman of the company, explains that the compound is being tested against traditional grafts, in which surgeons bridge non-union fractures with fragments of bone taken from the patient's hip.