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[PDF] Visual risk factors for falls in older people


SR Lord - Age and ageing, 2006 - Br Geriatrics Soc
Age and Ageing 2006; 35-S2: ii42–ii45 © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford
University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society.
doi:10.1093/ageing/afl085 All rights reserved. For Permissions, please ...
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[BOOK] Falls in older people: risk factors and strategies for prevention


SR Lord, C Sherrington, HB Menz, JCT Close, 2007 - books.google.com
Parti Epidemiology and risk factors for falls ... Epidemiology of falls and
fall-related injuries In this chapter, we examine the epidemiology of falls in
older people. We review the major studies that have described the incidence ...
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Prevention of falls and consequent injuries in elderly people

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P Kannus, H Sievänen, M Palvanen, T … - The Lancet, 2005 - Elsevier
Injuries resulting from falls in elderly people are a major public-health
concern, representing one of the main causes of longstanding pain, functional
impairment, disability, and death in this population. The problem is going ...
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Randomised controlled trial of prevention of falls in people aged>= 75 with severe visual …

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AJ Campbell, MC Robertson, SJ La Grow, NM … - British Medical Journal, 2005 - bmj.com
You are seeing this message because your web browser does not support basic web
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to make your experience on this site better. ... Objectives To assess the ...
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Shifting the focus in fracture prevention from osteoporosis to falls


TLN Jarvinen, H Sievanen, KM Khan, A … - British Medical Journal, 2008 - bmj.com
Fractures are a rapidly growing problem among older people. Hip fractures alone
cost over $20bn (£10bn; 13bn) in the United States in 1997. 1 Any intervention
that may reduce the risk of fracture at either the individual or population ...
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What is the role of falls?


JCT Close, SL Lord, HB Menz, C Sherrington - Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2005 - Elsevier
There is now firm evidence to support interventions in the prevention of falls
in older people, and emerging data support prevention of falls as a method of
fracture prevention. This chapter discusses the epidemiology of falls, risk ...
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Rethinking individual and community fall prevention strategies: a meta-regression comparing …

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AJ Campbell, MC Robertson - Age and Ageing, 2007 - Br Geriatrics Soc
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Visual impairment, causes of vision loss, and falls: the Singapore Malay Eye Study

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EL Lamoreux, E Chong, JJ Wang, SM Saw, T … - Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2008 - ARVO
RESULTS. Of the 3280 participants, 3266 (99.6%) provided information about
falls. Of these, 14.7% (n = 480) reported having fallen in the past 12 months.
After adjustment for gender, age, body mass index, history of angina, heart ...
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The consequences of waiting for cataract surgery: a systematic review

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W Hodge, T Horsley, D Albiani, J Baryla, M … - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2007 - ecmaj.com
Methods: We performed an electronic search of 11 databases and the proceedings
of 4 conferences. The search was restricted to studies published after the
transition to phacoemulsification (1990). We assessed the quality of the ...
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Burden and health care resource utilization in neovascular age-related macular degeneration: …

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G Soubrane, A Cruess, A Lotery, D … - Archives of Ophthalmology, 2007 - Am Med Assoc
Results The mean age for patients with NV-AMD was 78.1 years, and 65% were
women. The patients reported 45% worse vision-related functioning, 13% worse
overall well-being, and 30% more anxiety and 42% more depression symptoms ...
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