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April 17, 2008, 2:31 pm
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For all those guys out there who are taking drugs to sooth your heart, it may be coming at the exspense of your hip. A new study published today found that commonly prescribed drugs for heart failure and hypertension have been steal calcium away from bones.

Between 2000 and 2002, Dr. Lionel S. Lim of Griffin Hospital, in Derby, Connecticut and colleagues tested the bone mineral density levels of 3,269 men older than age 65. Patients received follow-up examinations about 4.6 years later. The researchers collected data on medication use and found that 84 men were continuous users of loop diuretics, 181 were intermittent users and 3,004 were non-users.

At the end of the study, the researchers found that the average annual rate of decline in total hip bone mineral density was -0.78 among continuous users, -0.58 among intermittent users and -0.33 among nonusers.

I guess that explains why old men are always breaking their hips! ;)

This is interesting information but what choice do men have? It's either bad hips or a stroke? You can have your hips replaced but a stroke can kill you. Looks like you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.