However, a population based study of 300 older people in Bangi, Selangor, in 2004 used the 10 item Barthel Index and found that 23% of older people aged 60 years and above were dependent in at least one ADL; similar to the results in our study[ 28].
In this large population based study of 8317 older people living in the community, we found that VA and SRV were strongly associated with falls.
She had not set off the alarm, although she thought she had) In this intensive follow-up of a full survey sample from a population based study of very old people, we found high rates of serious consequences of falling being unable to get up and thus lying on the floor for a long time, the latter strongly associated with cognitive impairment.
The objective of this study was therefore to determine the relationship between muscle morphology and sarcopenia as defined using the European Working Group Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) criteria in a population based study of community dwelling older men.
MESA is a population based study of 45-84 year old individuals of four US ethnicities without clinical cardiovascular disease.
The population based study of people 50 years old and over showed that 3.7% were blind with 0.5% having bilateral blindness, and 3.2% unilateral [ 23].
In a population based study of 306 70-year-old Hansen et al. found no association between diagnosis of diabetes and atheroma burden, however found a relationship between the HOMA insulin resistance index and atheroma score [ 23].
The mean values of blood pressure in both groups were similar to the mean values of attenders in OXCHECK, a UK primary-care based study of 35- to 64-year-olds recruited to a randomized trial of health checks in 1989 [ 31].
The findings on racial/ethnic difference in dementia risk among older diabetic patients are in accord with previous population-based studies of older adults with and without diabetes, which found that dementia rates were higher among African Americans relative to non-Hispanic whites (4) and similar among Mexican Americans (5) compared with non-Hispanic whites.
Demographic risk factors for multimorbidity have been identified in numerous population-based studies of older adults; however, there is less data on younger populations, despite the fact that approximately 24% of US adults age 18+ have multimorbidity.
