Why are hip fractures in the elderly so deadly?

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Why are hip fractures in the elderly so deadly?

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To add to the others hip fractures in general can be pretty serious. There are a load of major blood vessels in the area thay can be punctured and cause you to bleed internally to death and in the worst breaks even blood loss from the broken bones could do it.

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