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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Elderly Women Twice As Likely As Men To Suffer Fall Injuries

This report from the U.S. Centres for Disease Control presents national estimates of fall injury episodes for noninstitutionalized U.S. adults aged 65 years and over, by selected characteristics.

Circumstances surrounding the fall injury and activity limitations and utilization of health care resulting from the fall injury are also presented.


http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad392.pdf

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