Broken arms among boomers likely to rise
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Broken Arms send several hundred thousand Americans to Emergency Rooms each year, and a new study suggests that number could rise by nearly a third by 2030, when the youngest Baby Boomers will have just turned 65. Researchers looked at data on 28 million ER visits across the U.S. in 2008 and found 370,000 cases of fractures in the Humerus Bone of the Upper Arm. Kids between the ages of 5 and 9 accounted for the highest overall number of humerus breaks, but the arm injuries also spiked among women after age 40 and men after age 60. ... read more..
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