The role of cognitive impairment in fall risk among older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: cognitive impairment is an established fall risk factor; however, it is unclear whether a disease-specific diagnosis (i.e. dementia), measures of global cognition or impairments in specific cognitive domains (i.e. executive function) have the greatest association with fall risk. Our obje...

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Publicado en:	Age & Ageing Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 299 - 309
Autores principales:	Muir, Susan W., Gopaul, Karen, Montero Odasso, Manuel M.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Oxford University Press / USA May2012
Materias:	Epidemiology Old age Risk factors of falling down Cognition disorders Dementia Medical information storage & retrieval systems Psychology information storage & retrieval systems MEDLINE Meta-analysis Online information services Risk assessment Systematic reviews Data analysis
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