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Females fall more from heights but males survive less among a geriatric population: insights from an American level 1 trauma center
BACKGROUND: Approximately one third of subjects ≥65 year old and half of subjects ≥80 years old sustain a fall injury each year. We aimed to study the outcomes of fall from a height (FFH) among older adults. We hypothesized that in an elderly population, fall-related injury and mortality are the sam...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6716940/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31464582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1252-6 |