[PDF] Top 20 Falls and associated factors among elderly persons residing in the community

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

... involved in a common- law-marriage ...1147.00 and 1685.00 reais (59.0%). The mean age was ...3.4). The presence of comorbidities was reported by 89.0% of the elderly, and ... See full document

... investigate the prevalence of fear of falling among a sample of elderly persons in the community, and to analyze its correlation with age, self-perceived health, ... See full document

... Objective: The present study aims to evaluate the prevalence of and factors associated with the use of tobacco and alcohol among elderly people living ... See full document

... evaluate the association between triglycerides and HDL-cholesterol (TG/ HDL-c) ratio and cardiovascular risk factors among the ...of elderly persons (n=349) of both ... See full document

... pharmacotherapy and associated factors among elderly patients using at least one antihypertensive ...of elderly patients resident in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, ...with ... See full document

... verify and compare the intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors for falls among older community-dwelling people with and without a stroke ...group and three ... See full document

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

... describe the sociodemographic, clinical and pharmacotherapy characteristics of elderly persons with metabolic syndrome and to identify factors associated with drug ... See full document

... out among 263 elderly people with metabolic syndrome in the urban area of Uberaba, Minas Gerais, ...identified and classified according to the Micromedex® DrugReax System. ... See full document

... 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

... of the fear of falling of elderly with cataracts living in the community and the associated factors with high concern with falling ...analytical and ... See full document

... including falls. Accor- ding to information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the USA falls ranked as the second most significant cause of ... See full document

... Considering the complexity of the relationship between aging and medication use, there is a need to gather new scientiic evidence on this phenomenon in developing countries such as Brazil, so ... See full document

... Given the importance of MS as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and as differences in the different population groups surveyed make it difficult to compare results, there is a clear ... See full document

... ied, the classification algorithm selected level of physi- cal activity, smartphone games and ...shown in the lower part of the figure in which the part with dark border ... See full document

... determine the prevalence of falls in the last 12 months among the elderly; compare sociodemographic, clinical, and functional health variables between the ... 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

... Objective: The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence of falls among institutionalized elderly persons and identify associated ...of elderly ... See full document

... nature. The use of a non-probabilistic sample of the population of elderly individuals living in Juiz de Fora should be ...Although the PENSA sample had been suffi ciently large to ... See full document