Fall risk assessment in regular exercising elderly women

Japanese Journal of Geriatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 526-531

  Kikuchi, Reiko ^a   Kozaki, Koichi ^a   Kawashima, Yumiko ^a   Iwata, Akiko ^a   Hasegawa, Hiroshi ^a   Igata, Akihiro ^b   Toba, Kenji ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exercise habit; Fall predicting score; Risks of fall

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 55849103200     PISSN: 03009173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3143/geriatrics.45.526     Document Type: Article

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