Risk factors for falls with severe fracture in elderly people living in a middle-income country: A case control study

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Coutinho, Evandro S F ^a   Fletcher, Astrid ^b   Bloch, Katia V ^c   Rodrigues, Laura C ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SENESCENCE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FALLING; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITALIZATION; INJURY SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RISK; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, BONE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 51349168557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-8-21     Document Type: Article

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