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AGE AND AGEING
卷 41, 期 6, 页码 740-746出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs104
关键词
falls; men; muscle; older people; physical performance tests; recurrent
资金
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
- NIH Roadmap for Medical Research [U01 AR45580, U01 AR45614, U01 AR45632, U01 AR45647, U01 AR45654, U01 AR45583, U01 AG18197, U01-AG027810, UL1 RR024140]
- Swedish Research Council
- Center for Athletic Research
- Pahlsson Foundation
- Kock Foundation
- Malmo University Hospital Foundations
Background: recurrent fallers are at especially high risk for injuries. Objective: to study whether tests of physical performance are associated with recurrent falls. Subjects: a total of 10,998 men aged 65 years or above. Methods: questionnaires evaluated falls sustained 12 months preceding testing of grip strength, timed stand, 6-m walk and 20-cm narrow walk test. Means with 95% confidence interval (95% CI) are reported. P < 0.01 is a statistically significant difference. Results: in comparison to both occasional fallers and non-fallers, recurrent fallers performed more poorly on all the physical ability tests (all P < 0.001). A score below -2 standard deviations (SDs) in the right-hand grip strength test was associated with an odds ratio of 2.4 (95% CI 1.7, 3.4) for having had recurrent falls compared with having had no fall and of 2.0 (95% CI 1.3, 3.4) for having had recurrent falls compared with having had an occasional fall. Conclusion: low performance in physical ability tests are in elderly men associated with recurrent falls.
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