1.   At least one-third of all women over ninety have sustained a hip fracture.

2.   One in five will die from a hip fracture.

3.   Hip fractures are potentially life threatening, while crushed spinal vertebrae may lead to back pain, loss of height and mobility, and eventually curvature of the spine.

4.   Along with more energy, exercise can help reduce the risk of hip fractures, considered one of the most devastating problems of old age, especially among women.

5.   Although no increase in hip fracture was seen in the Texas studies, he said, this issue must still be explored.

6.   And sedative-hypnotics have been linked in some studies to an increased risk in the elderly to falls, hip fractures and automobile accidents.

7.   As an accompanying editorial noted, almost a decade ago research in Denmark indicated that the protectors could cut in half the rate of hip fractures.

8.   As has been the case with several previous investigations, the new study failed to find a relationship between calcium intake and the risk of hip fracture.

9.   Before the year was out, his season ended with a hip fracture.

10.   Both NASA and the aging institute are searching for ways to promote the remineralization of bones to combat problems like hip fractures.