31.   Researchers speculate that weight loss from a developing but perhaps undiagnosed illness accounts for most of the increased risk of hip fractures.

32.   That condition is likely to affect the physical therapy and rehabilitation that hip fracture patients need to regain the mobility they had before the accident.

33.   The authors say that exercise explains why Okinawans have strong bones and relatively few cases of hip fracture among the elderly.

34.   The research is among the first to identify characteristics of healthy people that predispose them to debilitating hip fractures years later.

35.   The survival edge was most pronounced for hip fracture patients.

36.   The spokesmen agreed that nearly all the injuries were minor, although Zitaglio said one person had been taken to Kings County Hospital Center with a hip fracture.

37.   The team has not finished research on calcium supplements and hip fractures.

38.   Another woman was taken to University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha and was listed in fair condition with a hip fracture.

39.   Dame Pattie died at the Woden Valley Hospital, Canberra, the national capital, a few days after she was admitted with a hip fracture.

40.   Federal Medicare funding now severely limits the days a hip fracture patient can spend in a hospitals and they often are discharged with no continuing care plan.