ArticleAge and ageing2015
Pain and falls and fractures in community-dwelling older men.
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- Anterior knee pain as a potential risk factor for falls in older adults: insights from the osteoarthritis initiative data.BMC public health · 2023Observational
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- Association of Pain Phenotypes with Risk of Falls and Incident Fractures.Biomedicines · 2022Article
- Severe low back or lower limb pain is associated with recurrent falls among older Australians.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2022Article
- Multi-Dimensional Impact of Chronic Low Back Pain among Underserved African American and Latino Older Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Hip osteoarthritis signs and symptoms are associated with increased fall risk among community-dwelling older adults with chronic low back pain: a prospective study.Arthritis research & therapy · 2021Article
- Higher Fatigue Prospectively Increases the Risk of Falls in Older Men.Innovation in aging · 2021Article
- Pain and recurrent falls in the older and oldest-old non-institutionalized population.BMC geriatrics · 2020Article
- The silent epidemic of chronic pain in older adults.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2019Review
- Joint pain and falls among women with breast cancer on aromatase inhibitors.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2019Article
- Factors Determining the Increased Risk of Falls in Individuals With Knee Pain in the Malaysian Elders Longitudinal Research (MELoR) Study.Frontiers in medicine · 2019Article
- Parkinson's Disease and Symptomatic Osteoarthritis Are Independent Risk Factors of Falls in the Elderly.Clinical medicine insights. Arthritis and musculoskeletal disorders · 2019Article
- Frequency and coincidence of geriatric syndromes according to age groups: single-center experience in Turkey between 2013 and 2017.Clinical interventions in aging · 2018Article
- Sex Differences in the Association Between Pain and Injurious Falls in Older Adults: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study.American journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundPain may reduce stability and increase falls and subsequent fractures in older men.
objectivesTo examine the association between joint pain and any pain with falls, hip and non-spine fractures in older community-dwelling men.
designA cohort study. SETTING AND
participantsAnalyses included 5,993 community-dwelling men aged ≥65 years from the MrOS cohort. MEASUREMENTS: Pain at hip, knee and elsewhere (any) was assessed by self-report. Men reported falls via questionnaires mailed 3× per year during the year following the baseline visit. Fractures were verified centrally. Mean follow-up time for fractures was 9.7 (SD 3.1) years. Logistic regression models estimated likelihood of falls and proportional hazards models estimated risk of fractures. Models were adjusted for age, BMI, race, smoking, alcohol use, medications use, co-morbidities and arthritis; fracture models additionally adjusted for bone mineral density.
resultsOne quarter (25%, n = 1,519) reported ≥1 fall; 710 reported ≥2 falls in the year after baseline. In multivariate models, baseline pain at hip, knee or any pain increased likelihood of ≥1 fall and ≥2 falls over the following year. For example, knee pain increased likelihood of ≥1 fall (odds ratio, OR 1.44; 95% confidence interval, CI 1.25-1.65) and ≥2 falls (OR 1.75; 95% CI 1.46-2.10). During follow-up, 936 (15.6%) men suffered a non-spine fracture (n = 217, 3.6% hip). In multivariate models, baseline pain was not associated with incident hip or non-spine fractures.
conclusionsAny pain, knee pain and hip pain were each strong independent risk factors for falls in older men. Increased risk of falls did not translate into an increased risk of fractures.
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