Relationships between orthostatic hypotension, frailty, falling and mortality in elderly care home residents

BACKGROUND: Orthostatic hypotension (OH; profound falls in blood pressure when upright) is a common deficit that increases in incidence with age, and may be associated with falling risk. Deficit accumulation results in frailty, regarded as enhanced vulnerability to adverse outcomes. We aimed to eval...

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Autores principales: Shaw, Brett H., Borrel, Dave, Sabbaghan, Kimiya, Kum, Colton, Yang, Yijian, Robinovitch, Stephen N., Claydon, Victoria E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30866845
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1082-6

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