Can echocardiographic findings predict falls in older persons?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  van der Velde, Nathalie ^a   Stricker, Bruno H Ch ^a   Roelandt, Jos R T C ^a   Ten Cate, Folkert J ^a   van der Cammen, Tischa J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; AGED; ANAMNESIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY POSTURE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; STROKE; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

SYNCOPE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; POSTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLE;

EID: 39749168426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000654     Document Type: Article

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