Personal Injury Law

Broken hip related to heightened risk of stroke

Recent news about hips have addressed DePuy Hip Implant recalls, but this article and research study is about a different issue regarding broken hips. So, medical studies have demonstrated that suffering a stroke is already known to increase the risk of breaking one?s hip. Now, new research hints that the reverse of the previous studies might also be true. A recent study has found that individuals with broken hips had more than a fifty percent increased risk of having a stroke within a year of their injury when compared to similar patients with no such fractures. However, the new research finding is not enough to be one hundred percent certain that hip fractures, which account for greater than 320,000 hospital admissions each year in our country, may actually cause a stroke. This finding has important ramifications as the nation?s third leading cause of death.

Full post as published by Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog on January 22, 2011 (boomark / email).