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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Femoral neck BMD was better at predicting hip fractures for women aged 80 years and older than two fracture risk ...

Any kind of fracture was predictive of more fractures in postmenopausal women, new data suggested. In a prospective, observational study of over 66,000 women from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), ...

An avulsion fracture happens when a tendon or ligament pulls a small fragment of bone from the main bone. These fractures usually occur near joints, such as in the fingers, hips, feet, and ankles.

The FDA greenlights treatment-related changes in bone mineral density as a surrogate endpoint in anti-osteoporosis drug trials in postmenopausal women.

IN OCTOBER, 1939, I 1 reported on a small series of hip reconstructions done for painful, nonunited fractures of the femoral neck under the various prevalent standard procedures. These included the ...

Share on Pinterest A lack of certain nutrients from vegetarian diets may increase bone fracture risk. Anastasia Mihaylova (Shpara)/Stocksy A recent study found that people following a vegetarian diet ...