EXERCISE TO PREVENT FALLS IN OLDER ADULTS: AN UPDATED SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS

EXERCISE TO PREVENT FALLS IN OLDER ADULTS: AN UPDATED SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS

Previous meta-analyses have found exercise as a single intervention prevents falls in older people. This updated systematic review with random effects meta-analysis and meta-regression aimed to test whether this effect is still present when new trials are added and explore trial characteristics asso...

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Veröffentlicht in:Innovation in aging 2017-07, Vol.1 (suppl_1), p.268-268
Hauptverfasser: Sherrington, C., Michaleff, Z., Fairhall, N., Tiedemann, A., Whitney, J., Cumming, R., Close, J., Lord, S.
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Zusammenfassung:Previous meta-analyses have found exercise as a single intervention prevents falls in older people. This updated systematic review with random effects meta-analysis and meta-regression aimed to test whether this effect is still present when new trials are added and explore trial characteristics associated with greater fall prevention effects. One hundred comparisons from 89 randomised trials with 19,869 participants were available for meta-analysis. Overall, exercise reduced the rate of falls in community dwelling older people by 21% (pooled rate ratio 0.79, 95% CI 0.73 to 0.85, p
ISSN:2399-5300
2399-5300
DOI:10.1093/geroni/igx004.982