Familial resemblance and shared latent familial variance in recurrent fall risk in older women

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1142-1147

  Faulkner, Kimberly A ^a,f   Cauley, Jane A ^a   Roth, Stephen M ^b   Kammerer, Candace ^a   Stone, Katie ^c   Hillier, Teresa A ^d   Ensrud, Kristine E ^e   Hochberg, Marc ^b   Nevitt, Michael C ^c   Zmuda, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Falls; Familial correlation; Genetics; Heritability; Mobility

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FALLING; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEREDITY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS; UNITED STATES; WALKING;

EID: 77951965704     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00128.2009     Document Type: Article

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