Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein

Yeah, and there are—

Studies correlating, you know, a less inflammatory diet with less risk of fracture.

So that is another reasonable thing to do.

Oh, I've had so many people with this story or tell me this is what happened to their mom.

So big picture, and I'm not saying this to scare people or anything, but when you hear about hip fractures, which of course 75% of them occur in women, and then, you know, statistically speaking, just if you have a hip fracture, depending on the study or population you're looking at,

the one-year mortality rate is, some studies, 15%, some studies, 30, or two years out.

A third of women, yeah.

I know I try to always give nuance in numbers because some of the numbers sound more scary than others.

It's not always 30, but it can be 15 to 30% in a year.

So, you know, we don't want people to have this happen, but, like, what is causing death?

Actually, a lot of it is it can be urosepsis, a postoperative urinary tract infection.

So you have this hip fracture.

Sometimes you've needed a Foley catheter.

There's urinary retention from pain.

People can't get out of bed.

And I think aside from the fact that urinary tract infections are the number one complication after hip fracture surgery and it can lead to readmissions, urosepsis, septic shock, things like that.

I think many of them are actually present, you know, prior to the hip fracture.

And so people who have general ureic syndrome or menopause, they may have increased urinary frequency.

They may have, you know, recurrent UTIs.

And what happens if you have that and you're an older woman, you're getting up in the middle of the night a little confused, a little delirious, more than you normally would, and they trip and fall.