Vitamin D deficiency intensifies deterioration of risk factors, such as male sex and absence of vision, leading to increased postural body sway

Gait and Posture

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 166-171

  Krause, Matthias ^a   Anschütz, Wilma ^a   Vettorazzi, Eik ^a   Breer, Stefan ^a   Amling, Michael ^a   Barvencik, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fall risk; Postural balance; Sex; Visual impairment; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DETERIORATION; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STANDING; VELOCITY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; COMPLICATION; FALLING; FOLLOW UP; FOOT; GERMANY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOT; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURAL BALANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84888299589     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2013.06.017     Document Type: Article

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