Prevalence and Burden of Gait Disorders in Elderly Men and Women Aged 60-97 Years: A Population-Based Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Mahlknecht, Philipp ^a   Kiechl, Stefan ^a   Bloem, Bastiaan R ^b   Willeit, Johann ^a   Scherfler, Christoph ^a   Gasperi, Arno ^c   Rungger, Gregorio ^c   Poewe, Werner ^a   Seppi, Klaus ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Hospital of Bruneck   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC GAIT DISORDER; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

EID: 84880839448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069627     Document Type: Article

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