January 7, 2011 --
It's already known that suffering a stroke can raise the risk of breaking your hip. But new research hints that the reverse might also be true. The study out of Taiwan found that patients with a broken hip had more than a 50 percent increased risk of having a stroke within a year of their injury compared to similar patients with no fractures.
Still, doctors aren't sure what is responsible for the added risk; it could be physical inactivity and psychological stress that comes after a broken hip.