Risk factors for falls with severe fracture in elderly people living in a middle-income country: a case control study
Open Access
- 26 August 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Geriatrics
- Vol. 8 (1), 21
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-8-21
Abstract
Fracture after falling has been identified as an important problem in public health. Most studies of risk factors for fractures due to falls have been carried out in developed countries, although the size of the elderly population is increasing fast in middle income countries. The objective of this paper is to identify risk factors for fall related to severe fractures in those aged 60 or more in a middle-income country.This publication has 40 references indexed in Scilit:
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