Predictive effects of different clinical balance measures and the fear of falling on falls in postmenopausal women aged 50 years and over

Gerontology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 660-665

  Ersoy, Yuksel ^a   MacWalter, Ronald S ^b   Durmus, Bekir ^a   Altay, Zuhal E ^a   Baysal, Ozlem ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fall risk, clinical measures; Falls, predictive effects; Fear of falling; Postmenopausal women; Postural balance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTURAL BALANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70449518089     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000235652     Document Type: Article

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