Heart Failure May Raise Fracture Risk

Broken bones occur more often in people with heart failure, a study finds. Researchers looked at records of 16,000 patients with various forms of heart disease. Of those, 2,000 had heart failure. All had been treated in emergency rooms. In the next year, people with heart failure were more than four times as likely as the others to have a broken bone. About 4.6% of those with heart failure had a fracture. About 1% of the others did. Hip fractures occurred in 1.3% for those with heart failure and 0.1% of the others. HealthDay News wrote about the study October 20. It was in the journal Circulation.