Blood pressure and falls in community-dwelling people aged 60 years and older in the VHM&PP cohort

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Klein, Diana ^a   Nagel, Gabriele ^b,c   Kleiner, Andrea ^b   Ulmer, Hanno ^d   Rehberger, Barbara ^c   Concin, Hans ^c   Rapp, Kilian ^a,b  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c AGENCY FOR PREVENTIVE AND SOCIAL MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Falls; Hypotension; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; AUSTRIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84877897585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-13-50     Document Type: Article

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