age and gender differences in falls and fall related injury rates

... predicting falls in community-dwelling older people Age Ageing 2008, 37:430-435 Cao C, Schultz AB, Ashton-Miller JA, Alexander NB: Sudden turns and stops while walking: kinematic sources of age and gender ... J: Age- associated differences in sensori-motor function and balance in community dwelling women Age Ageing 1994, 23:452-460 Berg KO, Wood-Dauphinee SL, Williams JI, Maki B: Measuring balance in ... walking speed of adults aged 20–79 years: reference values and determinants Age Ageing 1997, 26:15-19 Himann JE, Cunningham DA, Rechnitzer PA, Paterson DH: Agerelated changes in speed of walking...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... health maintenance/physical fitness and both internalizing (p = 0.000) and externalizing syndrome (p = 0.000) Decision making/problem solving and total life skills scores were both inversely correlated ... syndromes and, unlike young men, total life skills inversely correlated with both internalizing and externalizing syndromes The complex associations and the dissimilarities among the genders in relation ... When analysed by gender, the health maintenance/ physical fitness dimension inverse-correlated with both internalizing syndrome (p = 0.021) and externalizing syndrome (p = 0.000) in young men The...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... relatively higher in younger ages in common and other breeds, perhaps related to behaviour It is important to take into account the age pattern of disease and possible differences in age distribution ... , Gender, age, breed and geographic pattern of morbidity and mortality in insured dogs during 1995 and 1996 Vet Rec 2000a 146, 519-525 Egenvall A, Bonnett BN, Olson P Hedhammar Å: , Gender, age ... death in Swedish dogs insured during 1995 to 2000 by presenting overall and cause-specific mortality rates and proportional mortality by breed The age pattern of general causes of death within several...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... level) The stands differed either in age and structure, in exposition, or in soil characteristics (Table I) In the following text, the 40 year-old stands Weiden Brunnen, Schanze , and Schlöppner ... al [14, 15]; Kucera et al [37]; and Schulze et al [62] With the Granier methods applied in all stands, cylindrical heating and sensing elements were inserted into the trunks at breast height, ... sapflow is influenced further by internal water storage, model validation at the individual tree level involves comparing the integrated daily sums of measured and estimated water use Stand level...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... target for age- related decrease of GM in healthy elderly Note that this area has been reported in functional neuroimaging studies as mainly involved in maintaining information in working memory ... rate of brain tissue loss to increase in elderly Our findings are consistent with this hypothesis and confirm that brain shrinkage is a non-linear phenomenon over the life span that accelerates after ... original brain T1 and T2 images, the resulting images being further interpolated (1 mm3 isotropic voxel) The resulting normalized T1 volume was then segmented using the EVA priors thereby providing...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... testing and clinical trials (see bibliography) We did not ‘ Clinical drug rrials involve ksting a new drug in humans to determine whether it has thcrapcutic hcmcfit in fighting disrase Page GAO/H&D-93-17 ... included in clinical trials to detect gender- related differences in drug response An industry survey showed that drug manufacturers are uncertain as to what FDA expects with regard to including ... trial data by gender to determine differences between men and women in evaluating the safety of new drugs Drug manufacturers examined the interaction of endogenous and exogenous hormones in women...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 12:20

... Caldwell DS, Stainbrook D, Hackshaw KV, Fox LC, Wilson K: Gender differences in pain, coping, and mood in individuals having osteoarthritic knee pain: a within-day analysis Pain 2004, 110:571-577 ... RB Figure Health -Related Quality of Life by Domain and Gender Health -Related Quality of Life by Domain and Gender Health scores ranging from 0–100 are shown on the Yaxis and domains on the X-axis ... this investigation, we wanted to determine if gender differences exist in selfreported HRQOL in adolescents with CF Our specific objectives were: 1) to determine if there are gender differences in...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... months increased it by points For females, only drug use related variables (daily alcohol intake, length of cocaine use and SDS-H and SDS-C) were independently related to global NHP score, explaining ... same in both genders: the SDS-H and SDS-C accounted for 55.9% of the explained variance in women and for 52.9% in the model for men These findings are in accordance with results observed in an ... drug -related variables were retained in the female’s model, daily alcohol intake and length of cocaine use When doing the analysis with the total sample an interaction between gender and HIV infection...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... significantly related to female gender and current smoking habits and tended to be related to maternal smoking during the youth of the participant Shortness of breath during exercise was related to ... resulted in the growing epidemic of atopic diseases as eczema and rhinoconjunctivitis We were wondering whether the respiratory infections during early life in preterm children resulted in a low ... cohort study comparing term and preterm adults: high gestational age increased the risk of atopy at the age of 31[21] The early Th1- response, in combination with serious infections in the first two...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... language and gender have been devoted to identifying, and trying to explain, differences in the speech styles of men and women And one of the main differences has been found in the area of linguistic ... emphasize gender differences in complimenting are those by Holmes (1988) and Herbert (1990) Explicit and precise analyses involved in these studies produced some findings on gender differences in complimenting ... significant differences between men and women in performing the speech act set Men and 35 women also showed distinct differences in using compliment response strategies These findings suggest...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:30

... feminist theory has focused on the social construction of gender, not exclusively in childhood but for a whole lifetime, and this seems to be more powerful in explaining gender differences in ... between genders in compliment responses is still something new in Vietnam The purpose of this study is to examine the sociolinguistic characteristics of gender differences in compliment responses, in ... discussions and the major findings of the results obtained in the research And finally in Part 3, this paper will briefly summarize the major discoveries of this study, indicate the limitations and implications...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:49

... rises and falls in HTQ scores follow the same age pattern for men and women and are only different in terms of an elevated level of scores among women and in the gender- related ranking of age groups ... 16-20 years of age Age group 6: 36-40 years of age Age group 10: 56-60 years of age Age group 14: 76-80 years of age Age group 3: 21-25 years of age Age group 7: 41-45 years of age Age group 11: ... combined effect of gender and age on PTSD is studied in other parts of the world in order to see if the present Page 10 of 12 study has created a precedent for the combined effect of gender and age...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... Finally, differences in pre-stressor (baseline) ACTH and cortisol levels were reported using two-way ANOVAs with the factors age and gender Correlations between chronological age and endocrine ... successful aging Psychoneuroendocrinology 20, 711–725 Seeman, T.E., Singer, B., Wilkinson, C.W., McEwen, B., 2001 Gender differences in age- related changes in HPA axis reactivity Psychoneuroendocrinology ... between and 76 years showed that the TSST induces significant HPA axis responses in all age groups in both sexes The data show no gender differences in free cortisol reponses in children and younger...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... examined the injury morbidity in an urban and a rural setting indicated that among persons over sixty years old, falls accounted for about 35% of reported injuries in both settings [7] In Latin ... costs; (3) interventions and policies regarding fall prevention; and (4) to elucidate and illustrate the situation regarding falls and fall prevention in Jamaica through qualitative insights based ... of falls The data extracted included information on medical history; date, time and circumstances of the fall; type of injury resulting from fall; consequences and outcomes resulting from the fall, ...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

Ngày tải lên: 15/06/2014, 16:39

... al.: Work -related stress and bullying: gender differences and forensic medicine issues in the diagnostic procedure Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011 6:29 Competing interests ... Bullying and Emotional Abuse in the Workplace: International Perspectives in Research and Practice London, Taylor and Francis; 2003 17 Einarsen S, Skogstad A: Prevalence and risk of bullying and ... commitment in this age range, resulting in rise of stressful conditions and working difficulties The bullying behavior against a woman begins, in most cases, when she has just returned from maternity and/ or...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... D C and Hinchcliff K W Veterinary Medicine, pp 137-145 9th ed WB Saunders, London, 2000 19 Rajala P and Castren H Serum immunoglobulin concentrations and health of dairy calves in two management ... hypogammaglobulinemic in both groups of calves in this study There is a marked difference in neonatal feeding methods between dairy and beef calves, and it is wellknown that feeding method can ... J D., Martin K R., Bemis D A., Potgieter L N D., Reinemeyer C R., Rohrbach B W., Dowlen H H and Lamar K C Effects of housing and colostrum feeding on serum immunoglobulins, growth, and fecal...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... Page of tive and qualitative differences in the cytokine responses that could explain gender differences in the inflammatory profile Higher levels of cytokines in males could be explained by differences ... doses of LPS and Pokeweed Mitogen lectin as stimulants in vitro LPS-induced signalling in macrophages, and in other LPS-responsive cells such as neutrophils, is known to be initiated by interaction ... escape this inhibition [8,9] Our observations document that gender differences can depend on the type and intensity of the stimulus, and vary according to the considered cytokine LPS induced similar...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:20

... Page of tive and qualitative differences in the cytokine responses that could explain gender differences in the inflammatory profile Higher levels of cytokines in males could be explained by differences ... doses of LPS and Pokeweed Mitogen lectin as stimulants in vitro LPS-induced signalling in macrophages, and in other LPS-responsive cells such as neutrophils, is known to be initiated by interaction ... escape this inhibition [8,9] Our observations document that gender differences can depend on the type and intensity of the stimulus, and vary according to the considered cytokine LPS induced similar...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:22