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Falls.
Falls in elderly persons create a tremendous individual and social burden. Of the more than 147 million injury-related emergency department visits logged each year, falls account for approximately 24%, representing the leading cause of external injury.1 Children and elderly persons comprise the largest group responsible for this percentage. Compared with children, however, older adults are 10 t...
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We test whether mortality is related to individual income, mean community income, and community income inequality, controlling for initial health status and personal characteristics. The analysis is based on a random sample from the adult Swedish population of over 40,000 individuals who were followed up for 10-17 years. We find that mortality decreases significantly as individual income increa...
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BACKGROUND Falls are common and linked to morbidity. Our objectives were to characterize postoperative falls, and determine whether preoperative falls independently predicted postoperative falls (primary outcome), functional dependence, quality of life, complications, and readmission. METHODS This prospective cohort study included 7982 unselected patients undergoing elective surgery. Data wer...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/328660c0