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ReviewRespiratory medicine2009

Falls in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a call for further research.

Marc Roig, Janice J Eng, Jeremy D Road, W Darlene Reid

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Review in Respiratory medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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53citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 133 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Gait differences between COPD and healthy controls: systematic review and meta-analysis.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2024
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  4. Postural control in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marc RoigDepartment of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, 828 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, Canada. markredj@interchange.ubc.ca
Janice J Eng
Jeremy D Road
W Darlene Reid
University of British Columbia · CAGF Strong Rehabilitation Centre · CA

Funding

CIHR 63617
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a respiratory disease that results in airflow limitation and respiratory distress. The effects of COPD, however, are not exclusively limited to respiratory function and people with COPD face many non-respiratory manifestations that affect both function and mobility. Deficits in function and mobility have been associated with an increased risk for falling in older adults. The purpose of this study was to provide a theoretical framework to identify risks factors for falls in people with COPD. We have analyzed the literature to identify possible relationships between pathophysiological changes observed in COPD and common risk factors for falls. Well-established fall risk factors in people with COPD include lower limb muscle weakness and impaired activities of daily living. Other intrinsic risk factors such as gait and balance deficits, nutritional depletion, malnutrition, depression, cognitive impairments and medications are possible risk factors that need to be confirmed with more studies. There is no evidence that visual deficits are common in COPD. The role that precipitating factors such as syncope and postural hypotension may have on fall risk is unclear. Exacerbations and dyspnea do not have a precipitating effect on fall risk but they contribute to the progressive physical deterioration that may theoretically increase the risk for falls. While these results suggest that people with COPD might have an increased susceptibility to fall compared to their healthy peers, further research is needed to determine the prevalence of falls and specific risk factors for falls in people living with COPD.

Indexed as

Accidental FallsActivities of Daily LivingAgedCognition DisordersDrug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsGait Disorders, NeurologicHumansMalnutritionMuscle WeaknessPostural BalancePulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsSensation DisordersVision Disorders

Identifiers

PMID19419852
PMCPMC3326069
OpenAlexW2079763120

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