ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2017
Sex Differences in the Association Between Pain and Injurious Falls in Older Adults: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study.
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- Multisite pain and self-reported falls in older people: systematic review and meta-analysis.Arthritis research & therapy · 2019Pooled it
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- Association of timed up and go test results with future injurious falls among older adults by sex: a population-based cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Trend Analysis of Unintentional Fall Mortality and Years of Life Lost in the Fars Province of Iran, 2004-2019.Iranian journal of public health · 2024Article
- Severe low back or lower limb pain is associated with recurrent falls among older Australians.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2022Article
- Falls associated with indoor and outdoor environmental hazards among community-dwelling older adults between men and women.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- Association between Self-Reported Pain, Cognition, and Neuropathology in Older Adults Admitted to an Outpatient Memory Clinic-A Cross-Sectional Study.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Chronic Pain and Risk of Injurious Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2021Article
- Integrating Key User Characteristics in User-Centered Design of Digital Support Systems for Seniors' Physical Activity Interventions to Prevent Falls: Protocol for a Usability Study.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Peak Expiratory Flow and Frailty in Older Adults.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
- Knee Osteoarthritis and the Risk of Medically Treated Injurious Falls Among Older Adults: A Community-Based US Cohort Study.Arthritis care & research · 2019Observational
- Risk Factors for Injurious Falls in Older Adults: The Role of Sex and Length of Follow-Up.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2019Article
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- Risk factors for incident falls in older men and women: the English longitudinal study of ageing.BMC geriatrics · 2018Article
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Abstract
We investigated whether there are sex differences in the association between pain and incident injurious falls. A total of 2,934 people (ages ≥60 years) from the population-based Swedish National Study on Aging and Care in Kungsholmen (2001-2004) participated. Participants were followed up for 3 and 10 years for falls leading to hospitalization or outpatient care. Data were analyzed with flexible parametric survival models that adjusted for potential confounders. During the first 3 years of follow-up, 67 men and 194 women experienced an injurious fall, and over 10 years of follow up, 203 men and 548 women experienced such a fall. In men, the presence of pain, having pain that was at least mild, having pain that affected several daily activities, and having daily pain all significantly increased the likelihood of incurring an injurious fall during the 3-year follow-up period. The multivariate-adjusted hazard ratios ranged from 1.78 (95% confidence interval: 1.00, 3.15) for the presence of pain to 2.89 (95% confidence interval: 1.41, 5.93) for several daily activities' being affected by pain. Results for the 10-year follow-up period were similar. No significant associations were detected in women. Although pain is less prevalent in men than in women, its impact on risk of injurious falls seems to be greater in men.
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