ArticleAging clinical and experimental research2020
Frailty and prediction of recurrent falls over 10 years in a community cohort of 75-year-old women.
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- Prevalence of Frailty Among Chinese Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of public health · 2023Pooled it
- Frailty Is a Risk Factor for Falls in the Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2023Pooled it
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- Exergame and cognitive training for preventing falls in community-dwelling older people: a randomized controlled trial.Nature medicine · 2024Trial
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- Analysis of influencing factors and prediction of falls among rural older adults in China based on a nomogram model.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Clinical validation of a frailty management mHealth tool in a cohort of community-dwelling older adults: the Geras Fit-Frailty App.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Osteocalcin and frailty among older women.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
- Latent profiles of falls self-awareness and associated factors in older maintenance hemodialysis patients.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Frailty is associated with a history of falls among mobility-limited older adults-cross-sectional multivariate analysis from the BIOFRAIL study.European geriatric medicine · 2025Observational
- Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy and Falls in Old People: Risks and Prevention-An Observational Case-Control Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- The relationship among socioeconomic status, social support and frailty: is there a gender difference?Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
- Association of Coprescribing of Gabapentinoid and Other Psychoactive Medications With Altered Mental Status and Falls in Adults Receiving Dialysis.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2025Observational
- Risk factors of frailty/sarcopenia in community older adults: Meta-analysis.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2025Review
- Construction of a risk prediction model for falls in elderly lung cancer patients with sarcopenia.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Association between self-reported visual symptoms (suggesting cataract) and self-reported fall-related injury among adults aged ≥ 65 years from five low- and middle-income countries.Eye (London, England) · 2024Article
- Impact of activity limitations due to fear of falling on changes in frailty in Korean older adults: a longitudinal study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundFrailty captures the age-related declines in health leading to increased vulnerability, including falls which are commonplace in older women. The relationship between frailty and falls is complex, with one leading to the other in a vicious cycle.
aimsThis study addresses the gap in understanding how patterns of frailty and falls propensity interact, particularly in those who have not yet entered the falls-frailty cycle.
methodsThe Osteoporosis Risk Assessment cohort consists of 1044 community-dwelling women aged 75, with 10 years of follow-up. Investigations were performed and a frailty index constructed at baseline, 5 and 10 years. Falls were self-reported for each previous 12 months. Analysis was two-directional, firstly based on frailty status and second, based on falls status. Recurrent falls was the primary outcome.
resultsBaseline frailty was a significant predictor of recurrent falls after 5 and 10 years [(OR 2.55 (1.62-3.99); 3.04 (1.63-5.67)]. Among women who had no history of falls at age 75, frailty was a stronger predictor of falls at 5 years [OR 3.06 (1.59-5.89)] than among women who had previously fallen. DISCUSSION: Frailty is significantly associated with recurrent falls and most pronounced in those who are frail but have not yet fallen.
conclusionsThis suggests that frailty should be an integral part of falls-risk assessment to improve identification of those at risk of becoming fallers.
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