Underevaluation of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients With Nonaccidental Falls

• Main Authors: Marcos Daccarett MD, MSc (Author), Michele Brignole MD (Author), Gangadhar R. Malasana MD (Author), Randall P. Sherwood MBA (Author), Tawni L. Jetter APRN (Author), Mohamed H. Hamdan MD, MBA (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The incidence of adult patients with falls seeking medical assistance in the Salt Lake City area, Utah, is 28,000 per million adult inhabitants. Objective: We sought to evaluate the prevalence of cardiovascular risk assessment and cardiovascular abnormalities in patients presenting with...