title: Cardiac arrhythmia and hip fracture.
abstract: In 2 patients cardiac rhythm disturbances clearly caused falls and hip fractures. This prompted us to study patients with hip fractures to determine if any combination of clinical and laboratory findings identified those with fractures due to arrhythmia.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001919:Bradycardia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006327:Heart Block / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D012306:Risk; D013575:Syncope / Q000209:etiology*