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Visual risk factors for falls in older adults: a case-control study

BACKGROUND: Falls are the second leading  cause of accidental deaths worldwide mainly in older people. Older people have poor vision and published evidence suggests that it is a risk factor for falls. Less than half of falls clinics assess vision as part of the multi-factorial assessment of older ad...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Jignasa, Czanner, Gabriela, Harding, Simon, Newsham, David, Robinson, Jude
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8855581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35177024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-02784-3