1. Testing a Fall Risk Model for Injection Drug Users.
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Pieper, Barbara, Templin, Thomas N., and Goldberg, Allon
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RISK factors of falling down , *AGE distribution , *ANALYSIS of variance , *ANKLE , *CHI-squared test , *COMPARATIVE studies , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *STATISTICAL correlation , *DIAGNOSIS , *EMPLOYMENT , *POSTURAL balance , *GAIT in humans , *RANGE of motion of joints , *LEG , *MATHEMATICAL models , *PAIN , *PHYSICAL fitness , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *RESEARCH funding , *RISK assessment , *STATISTICAL sampling , *VENOUS insufficiency , *COMORBIDITY , *THEORY , *CAUSAL models , *MULTIPLE regression analysis , *INTRAVENOUS drug abusers , *PAIN measurement , *CROSS-sectional method , *HEEL (Anatomy) , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
The article discusses a study that evaluated the Fall Risk Model for Injection Drug Users by assessing the association between injection drug use, chronic venous insufficiency and lower extremity impairment. The study examined the relationship between the Tinetti balance and gait total score and the role of injection drug use in fall risk. It was found that fall risk was associated with route of drug use.
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- 2012
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