Description of spatio-temporal gait parameters in elderly people and their association with history of falls: Results of the population-based cross-sectional KORA-Age study

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Thaler Kall, Kathrin ^a,b   Peters, Annette ^a   Thorand, Barbara ^a   Grill, Eva ^c   Autenrieth, Christine S ^a   Horsch, Alexander ^b,d   Meisinger, Christa ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^e KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electronic walkway; Fall risk; Falls; Gait parameters; Velocity

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GAIT; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84925624153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-015-0032-1     Document Type: Article

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