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Gait disturbances as specific predictive markers of the first fall onset in elderly people: a two-year prospective observational study

Falls are common in the elderly, and potentially result in injury and disability. Thus, preventing falls as soon as possible in older adults is a public health priority, yet there is no specific marker that is predictive of the first fall onset. We hypothesized that gait features should be the most...

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Autores principales: Mignardot, Jean-Baptiste, Deschamps, Thibault, Barrey, Eric, Auvinet, Bernard, Berrut, Gilles, Cornu, Christophe, Constans, Thierry, de Decker, Laure
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3933787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24611048
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00022