@article{ref1,
title="Mortality and profiles of community-dwelling fallers. Results from the EPIDOS cohort",
journal="Maturitas",
year="2014",
author="Bailly, Sébastien and Haesebaert, Julie and Decullier, Evelyne and Dargent-Molina, Patricia and Annweiler, Cédric and Beauchet, Olivier and Schott, Anne-Marie and Rabilloud, Muriel",
volume="79",
number="3",
pages="334-339",
abstract="OBJECTIVE To assess long-term survival of community-dwelling elderly women after a fall according to various characteristics of whom four falling profiles. <br><br>METHODS The study included 329 women (mean age ± SD: 84 ± 3.5 years). Phone interviews were conducted every four months over four years to investigate the occurrence of falls and fill out a specific questionnaire. The vital status was checked up to 13 years after these four years. An accelerated failure-time model was used to estimate the effect of the falling profiles on women survival. <br><br>RESULTS During the four-year follow-up, 86 women (26%) belonged to the &quot;outside falls&quot; profile, 63 (19%) to &quot;environmental falls&quot;, 140 (43%) to &quot;inside falls&quot;, and 40 (12%) to &quot;falls from height&quot;. At 13 years, the survival probability was estimated at 20.8% [95% CI: 16.4-25.2%]. On average, women with &quot;inside falls&quot; had shorter survivals in comparison with each of the other falling profiles. Kaplan-Meier survival curves showed also shorter survivals of these women vs. all other women grouped together (HR = 1.33 [1.02-1.73], p = 0.03). <br><br>CONCLUSION Elderly women with inside falls had shorter survivals than others. Indoor falls could be markers of an underlying frailty and should trigger adequate prevention and protection measures.<p/> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0378-5122",
doi="10.1016/j.maturitas.2014.07.017",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2014.07.017"
}