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<blockquote data-quote="tD33NAt" data-source="post: 2569139" data-attributes="member: 124445">Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director at Age UK said: &#039;The risk of falling over increases as we get older for many reasons, including deterioration in muscle strength and balance, failing vision and problems with medication. The high proportion of women over 80 falling over is partly down to demographics - women are still more likely to live longer than men and 70 per cent of women over 65 live alone. But osteoporosis - which affects roughly half of all women at some stage in their lives - also places older women at greater risk of breaking a bone if they do have a fall... <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sODiPDk-viGLVrcuReHy_6axTGI/0/da" target="_blank"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sODiPDk-viGLVrcuReHy_6axTGI/0/di" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sODiPDk-viGLVrcuReHy_6axTGI/1/da" target="_blank"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sODiPDk-viGLVrcuReHy_6axTGI/1/di" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/pZWlb8hUWTM" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~3/pZWlb8hUWTM/228677.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="tD33NAt, post: 2569139, member: 124445"] Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director at Age UK said: 'The risk of falling over increases as we get older for many reasons, including deterioration in muscle strength and balance, failing vision and problems with medication. The high proportion of women over 80 falling over is partly down to demographics - women are still more likely to live longer than men and 70 per cent of women over 65 live alone. But osteoporosis - which affects roughly half of all women at some stage in their lives - also places older women at greater risk of breaking a bone if they do have a fall... [URL="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sODiPDk-viGLVrcuReHy_6axTGI/0/da"][IMG]http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sODiPDk-viGLVrcuReHy_6axTGI/0/di[/IMG][/URL] [URL="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sODiPDk-viGLVrcuReHy_6axTGI/1/da"][IMG]http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sODiPDk-viGLVrcuReHy_6axTGI/1/di[/IMG][/URL] [IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/pZWlb8hUWTM[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~3/pZWlb8hUWTM/228677.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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