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| Inferior physical performance test results of 10,998 men in the MrOS Study is associated with high fracture risk | | Author(s) | Bjorn E Rosengren, Eva L Ribom, Jan-Ake Nilsson |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 41, no 3, May 2012 |
| Pages | pp 339-344 |
| Source | http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.bgs.org.uk/ |
| Keywords | Older men ; Physical capacity ; Musculoskeletal systems ; Falls ; Fractures ; At risk. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to determine whether tests of physical performance are associated with fall-related fractures. 10,998 men aged 65 years or above were recruited. Questionnaires evaluated falls sustained twelve months before administration of a grip strength test, a timed stand test, a six-metre walk test and a 20-centimetre narrow walk test. Fallers with a fracture performed worse than non-fallers on all tests. Fallers with a fracture performed worse than fallers with no fractures both on the right-hand-grip strength test and on the six-metre walk test. A score below -2 standard deviations in the right-hand-grip strength test was associated with an odds ratio of 3.9 (95% CI: 2.1-7.4) for having had a fall with a fracture compared with having had no fall and with an odds ratio of 2.6 (95% CI: 1.3-5.2) for having had a fall with a fracture compared with having had a fall with no fracture. The study concludes that these tests performed by old men help discriminate fallers with a fracture from both fallers with no fracture and non-fallers. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120511005 A |
| Classmark | BC: BI: BK6: OLF: CUF: CA3 |
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