Risk factors for fear of falling: A cross-sectional population-based study: Letters to the editor

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1304-1306

  Rossat, Arnaud ^a   Beauchet, Olivier ^b   Nitenberg, Christiane ^a   Annweiler, Cédric ^b   Fantino, Bruno ^a  

^a Medical Health Center   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; BODY MASS; DRUG USE; FALLING; FEAR; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; LETTER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PROPRIOCEPTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VISION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEAR; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67649771605     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02299.x     Document Type: Letter

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