Emotional stress as a trigger of falls leading to hip or pelvic fracture. Results from the ToFa study – a case-crossover study among elderly people in Stockholm, Sweden

BACKGROUND: Sudden emotions may interfere with mechanisms for keeping balance among the elderly. The aim of this study is to analyse if emotional stress and specifically feelings of anger, sadness, worries, anxiety or stress, can trigger falls leading to hip or pelvic fracture among autonomous older...

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Autores principales: Möller, Jette, Hallqvist, Johan, Laflamme, Lucie, Mattsson, Fredrik, Ponzer, Sari, Sadigh, Siv, Engström, Karin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19203356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-9-7

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