Heart Failure Patients Have Higher Risk Of Fractures

Friday, October 24, 2008 - 00:21 in Health & Medicine

Heart failure patients have four times the risk of fractures and 6.3 times the risk of hip fracture as other heart patients. Heart failure patients should be screened and treated for osteoporosis if necessary, researchers said.

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