Falls and Balance Impairments in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: Thinking Beyond Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

Canadian Journal of Diabetes

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 6-9

  Hewston, Patricia ^a   Deshpande, Nandini ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Balance; Cognition; Falls; Muscular; Sensory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FALLING; HUMAN; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; RISK FACTOR; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SKILL; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VISUAL DISORDER; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COGNITIVE AGING; COMPLICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SENSATION DISORDERS; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; COGNITIVE AGING; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; COST OF ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; HUMANS; POSTURAL BALANCE; RISK FACTORS; SENSATION DISORDERS;

EID: 84954271737     PISSN: 14992671     EISSN: 23523840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjd.2015.08.005     Document Type: Article

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