Falls indoors may signal frailty, linked to shorter survival

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Falls indoors may signal frailty, linked to shorter survival

By Shereen Lehman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women in their eighties who fell indoors, rather than outdoors or from a height like a ladder, died sooner than their peers, a new French study finds. Indoor falls could be an indicator of frailty and a sign that protective measures should be taken, say the authors. The study was led by Sebastien Bailly, a researcher with Hospices Civils de Lyon in France. He and his coauthors write in the journal Maturitas, ?The mean survival time of women with inside falls was nearly 1.6 years shorter than that of women with other falling profiles. ...

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