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Too Many Different Medications Cause Fractures: Study

  • September 16, 2018

If you’re taking multiple drugs in a day for various health problems, you may want to take note of a new study that links taking multiple drugs to an increased risk for bone fractures. According to Starts at 60, researchers found that elderly people taking high-risk drugs for sleeping, pain or incontinence not only are twice as likely to fall and break bones, but are also more likely to die within a year of their injury. Specifically, 90 percent of fractures are due to falls and up to...