Injurious Falls and Syncope in Older Community-Dwelling Adults Meeting Inclusion Criteria for SPRINT

Donal J Sexton; Mark Canney; Matthew D L O'Connell; Patrick Moore; Mark A Little; Conall M O'Seaghdha; Rose-Anne Kenny

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.2924

Injurious Falls and Syncope in Older Community-Dwelling Adults Meeting Inclusion Criteria for SPRINT

JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Sep 1;177(9):1385-1387. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.2924.

Authors

Donal J Sexton^{1

2

3

4}, Mark Canney^{1

3}, Matthew D L O'Connell¹, Patrick Moore¹, Mark A Little^{3

4}, Conall M O'Seaghdha^{1

3

4}, Rose-Anne Kenny¹

Affiliations

¹ The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
² Health Research Board Clinical Research Facility Galway, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland.
³ Trinity Health Kidney Centre, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
⁴ Department of Nephrology, Beaumont Hospital, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

Abstract

This study compares rates of injurious falls and syncope in community-dwelling older adults in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing with rates in the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Accidental Falls / statistics & numerical data*
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Clinical Trials as Topic / organization & administration*
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Incidence
Independent Living*
Ireland / epidemiology
Male
Middle Aged
Prospective Studies
Risk Factors
Syncope / epidemiology*