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The MOBILIZE Boston Study: Design and methods of a prospective cohort study of novel risk factors for falls in an older population

BACKGROUND: Falls are the sixth leading cause of death in elderly people in the U.S. Despite progress in understanding risk factors for falls, many suspected risk factors have not been adequately studied. Putative risk factors for falls such as pain, reductions in cerebral blood flow, somatosensory...

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Autores principales: Leveille, Suzanne G, Kiel, Douglas P, Jones, Richard N, Roman, Anthony, Hannan, Marian T, Sorond, Farzaneh A, Kang, Hyun G, Samelson, Elizabeth J, Gagnon, Margaret, Freeman, Marcie, Lipsitz, Lewis A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2500010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18638389
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-8-16