According to World Health Organization criteria, osteoporosis is defined to exist when BMD values fall more than 2.5 standard deviations below the young adult reference mean. 1 Many studies indicate that the risk of fragility fractures increases progressively as BMD declines.
According to World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, osteoporosis is defined to exist when BMD values fall more than 2.5 standard deviations below the young adult reference mean. 1 Many studies indicate that the risk of fragility fractures increases progressively as BMD declines.
For the falls calendar a fall was defined to the participant as being an event that resulted in unintentionally coming to rest on the ground or a lower surface.
Serum bicarbonate level was defined to be low when it fell in the lower 25th percentile of serum bicarbonate level (25.5 mEq/l).
This time could be defined as being equivalent to fall.
The question explicitly defined falls by reference to fall, stumble or slip and coming to rest on the floor or lower surface.
A near-fall is defined as 'the person seems to fall, but can prevent the fall by catching or leaning on a person or a thing (e.g. a chair, a drawer or a table)' [ 12].
People who incline one way or the other tend to fall into tightly defined and differentiated groups.
Participants who needed 30 minutes or more to fall asleep were defined as having DIS.
