Visual impairment and the incidence of falls and fractures among older people: Longitudinal findings from the blue mountains eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7589-7593

  Hong, Thomas ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^a   Burlutsky, George ^a   Samarawickrama, Chameen ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Falls; Fractures; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; AGE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; FORECASTING; FRACTURES, BONE; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VISION DISORDERS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84924897889     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-14262     Document Type: Article

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