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Cardiovascular causes of falls.
Cardiovascular disorders are responsible for as many as 77% of patients presenting to Accident and Emergency Departments with unexplained or recurrent falls and falls associated with unexplained loss of consciousness [1]. The importance of these disorders as a group is emphasized by the fact that fallers with an intrinsic cardiac cause have a greater mortality than those with non-cardiovascular...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0002-0729,1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/30.suppl_4.19