nikcers
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Falls that result in a broken hip for the elderly are generally life threatening.
Here's why Whites suffer from fatal falls more often:
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Black individuals generally have higher bone mineral density (BMD) compared to white individuals across various age groups and skeletal sites, a difference that persists even after adjusting for body size, lifestyle, and biochemical factors. This disparity is observed in both men and women, with black men and women showing significantly greater BMD at the whole body, total hip, femoral neck, and other sites compared to their white counterparts.
White people tend to live long lives. Its a combination of many factors but when you live into your golden years and fall down its gonna hurt you more.
A lot of it is cultural in that we take good care of our elderly some of it is the longevity genes though and those genes only exist because they were more survivable through cultures that took care of their elderly.