Menopause Lifestyle » hip fracture http://menopauselifestyle.com/blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:23:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Better to have breast cancer than a hip fracture http://menopauselifestyle.com/blog/older-women-more-likely-to-die-from-hip-fractures-than-breast-cancer/ http://menopauselifestyle.com/blog/older-women-more-likely-to-die-from-hip-fractures-than-breast-cancer/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:32:08 +0000 Ada http://www.menopauselifestyle.com/blog/older-women-more-likely-to-die-from-hip-fractures-than-breast-cancer/

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Women over 65 are more likely to die if they have a hip fracture than if they are diagnosed with breast cancer. This finding was presented by a team of investigators at the American Geriatric Society’s annual meeting. In the study, women who had hip fractures tended to be older, better educated, have lower BMI [...]

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Surviving menopause: Osteoporosis, Calcium and Vitamin D Menopause Lifestyle -

As menopause approaches, many women begin to worry about osteoporosis and how to prevent it. This is something to be concerned about because the drop in estrogen production which occur after menopause causes an increase in bone loss leading to fragile bones. Factors which increase the risk of developing osteoporosis include: low bone density (thickness [...]

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