People arriving at the emergency room for a fall may be there due to an underlying infection rather than clumsiness, a new study suggests.
Infection-related falls usually affect older people but can happen to anyone, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital warn.
“Over the years I’ve been struck by the fact that some of the more serious infections I treated were in people who came to the hospital because they fell,” said the study’s principal investigator, Dr. Farrin Manian, a clinician educator in the hospital’s division of general medicine.
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