SynthesisInternational journal of biometeorology2018
Meteorological factors to fall: a systematic review.
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- Risk factors associated with injurious falls on snow or ice: results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.Innovation in aging · 2026Article
- Fracture Patterns in Fatal Free Falls: A Systematic Review of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Risk Factors and the Role of Postmortem CT.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Hourly Relative Humidity and Fall Injuries in China: A Nationwide Case-Crossover Study Based on 4.19 Million Cases.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- Global, regional, and national burden of falls from 1990 to 2021: a comprehensive analysis with a focus on falls attributable to reduced bone mass and projections to 2045.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A Higher Charlson Comorbidity Index Is a Risk Factor for Hip Fracture in Older Adults During Low-Temperature Periods: A Cross-Sectional Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
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- The impact of apparent temperature on the emergency visits for traumatic fractures in Hangzhou, China.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Trend and Seasonality of Hip Fractures in Catalonia, Spain: Exploring the Influence of Climate.Calcified tissue international · 2024Article
- Association between meteorological factors and elderly falls in injury surveillance from 2014 to 2018 in Guangzhou, China.Heliyon · 2022Article
- The Association of Cold Ambient Temperature With Fracture Risk and Mortality: National Data From Norway-A Norwegian Epidemiologic Osteoporosis Studies (NOREPOS) Study.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2022Article
- Low serum levels of vitamin D significantly increase the risk of death in older adults with hip fractures: a prospective cohort.Revista do Colegio Brasileiro de Cirurgioes · 2022Article
- Associations between meteorological factors and emergency department visits for unintentional falls during Ontario winters.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2021Article
- Weather Conditions and Outdoor Fall Injuries in Northwestern Russia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
There existed systematic review on studies investigating the association between hip fractures and external risk factors including meteorological factors. Albeit the fact that most serious common fall injury is a hip fracture, it cannot account for all injuries forms of fall. There was a lack of systematic review covering all fall-related injury or deaths to thoroughly summarise meteorological aspects of fall. This study aimed to systematically review epidemiological studies of fall and fall-related circumstances without restriction to hip fracture. A systematic search in three databases, namely PubMed, CINAHL Plus and EMBASE, was performed. Searches in two Chinese databases named the Wanfang Med Online and the China Journal Net were done in addition. A total of 29 studies were identified. The study site, fall cases identification, meteorological factors and findings of all the selected studies were being extracted. The quality of the studies was critically appraised. We identified some of the environmental risk factors to fall among those studies. Ranging from the lower ambient temperature, the presence of snow cover, seasonal factors, and time of the day to location of fall, these factors have different levels of impact related to higher incidence or mortality of fall. To conclude, a better understanding of injury mechanisms is a prerequisite for preventive interventions.
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