Comparison of performance-based measures among native Japanese, Japanese-Americans in Hawaii and Caucasian women in the United States, ages 65 years and over: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Japanese (both in Japan and Hawaii) have a lower incidence of falls and of hip fracture than North American and European Caucasians, but the reasons for these differences are not clear. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study. We compared neuromuscular risk factors for falls using...

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Autores principales: Aoyagi, Kiyoshi, Ross, Philip D, Nevitt, Michael C, Davis, James W, Wasnich, Richard D, Hayashi, Takuo, Takemoto, Tai-ichiro
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2001
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC59654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11696243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-1-3

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