Risk factors for falling in older Mexican Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 417-422

  Reyes Ortiz, Carlos A ^a   Al Snih, Soham ^a   Loera, José ^a   Ray, Laura A ^a   Markides, Kyriakos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Falls; Older Mexican Americans; Prevalence; Risk Factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE TEST; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 4344688890     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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