[PDF] Top 20 Factors associated with recurrent falls in a cohort of elderly people

... the elderly, falling constitute an important cause of morbidity and ...recurrence of falls and identify factors associated with falls and recurrent ... See full document

... objective of this cross-sectional study was to estimate the self-reported prevalence of falls among elderly users (older than 60 years) of the Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, primary ... See full document

... determinant factors for falling in Portuguese older adults, with a special emphasis on the biomechanical changes in gait patterns associated with the functional fitness decline ... See full document

... changes in strength and muscle mass, polypharmacy and reduced physical ac- tivities may contribute to falls in the aging ...to falls due to greater longevity, sedentary lifestyle, medication ... See full document

... prevalence of and factors associated with the use of tobacco and alcohol among elderly people living in the northern part of the city of Juiz de Fora, ... See full document

... prevalence of falls among elderly persons and analyze fall-related ...survey of 400 elderly subjects (aged 60 years or older) living in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas ... See full document

... prevalence of falls and associated factors in non-institutionalized elderly ...sample of non-institutionalized elderly persons in a city in the north ... See full document

... retrospective cohort study aimed to describe the incidence of recurrent Plasmodium vivax malaria and associated factors in Porto Velho, Rondônia State, Brazil, in ...cases ... See full document

... circumstances associated with falls among elderly people have been well described in some developed countries, but little is known about such accidents in middle-income ... See full document

... city with high temperatures, during the year of 2013 it was observed by the chart of the site CLIMATE that in the months of June to September the temperatures reached less than ... See full document

... occurrence of falls in AD patients is frequent, and their consequences are cognitive decline, fractures and loss of ...risk factors in order to establish effective prevention ... See full document

... living with the participant, income and level of ...pretested with six elderly people to adjust the questions to the study ...assessment of the strength of the lower ... See full document

... evaluate factors associated with income and education in overweight elderly in ...study with retrospective data from the home and individual registry of primary ... See full document

... gathered in the study “Variables associated with the cognition in elderly care- givers,” developed by the “Aging and Health” research group at the Federal University of São ... See full document

... elements associated with fragili- ty found in studies included in this review that deserve attention are: physical and/ or functional factors [low mobility (17); reduced functional gain ... See full document

... the factors associated with the risk of falls in institutionalized ...out in two long-stay institutions for the elderly, with 61 residents of both ... See full document

... were elderly patients admitted to clinical and surgical ...risk factors assessed were: body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, systemic arterial hypertension (SAH), blood glucose, total cholesterol, ... See full document

... declines of the control and the organization of movements, among the most prominent there are the depressed movements (both initiation and execution), and the deterioration of the quality of ... See full document

... Abstract Recurrent falls constitute a high risk for morbidity and mortality among older people, especially institutionalized individuals, due to greater frailty and functional decline in this ... See full document

... calculation of absolute simple frequen- cies and percentages for the qualitative variables, and measures of centrality (mean) and dispersion (stan- dard deviation) for the continuous ...measures of ... See full document