Incidence of falls and fear of falling in Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis
โ Scribed by Kiyotaka Yamagiwa; Setsu Iijima; Takefumi Furuya; Tetsuo Ikai; Eisuke Inoue; Atsuo Taniguchi; Shigeki Momohara; Hisashi Yamanaka
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1439-7595
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## Abstract ## Objective To identify correlates of falling and fear of falling, and to examine how fear of falling affects activities among adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). ## Methods Adults (mean age 54.2 years; SD 9.1) with RA (n = 128) responded to questions related to falls, fear of fa
## Abstract At autopsy, 62 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) showed significantly lower morbidity (P < 0.001) and mortality (P < 0.02) from myocardial infarction than 62 matched control patients, but there were no significant differences in frequency of cerebral infarction or pulmonary emboli