Ranging from the lower ambient temperature , the presence of snow cover , seasonal factors , and time of the day to location of fall , these factors have different levels of impact related to higher incidence or mortality of fall .
There existed systematic review on studies investigating the association between hip fractures and external risk factors including meteorological factors .
Albeit the fact that most serious common fall injury is a hip fracture , it can not account for all injuries forms of fall .
There was a lack of systematic review covering all fall-related injury or deaths to thoroughly summarise meteorological aspects of fall .
This study aim ed to systematic ally review epidemiological studies of fall and fall-related circumstances without restriction to hip fracture .
Circumstances of Falls Causing Hip Fractures in the Elderly
A prospect i ve analysis was performed on 832 patients to determine the circumstances surrounding falls leading to hip fracture within a homogenous , elderly urban population . Special emphasis was placed on the season of year , time of day , location of fall , and other circumstances in which the fracture occurred . All patients were community dwelling , cognitively intact , previously ambulatory elderly who sustained a femoral neck or intertrochanteric fracture . Most fractures occurred at home , particularly in patients who were older , less healthy , and poorer ambulators . More than 75 % of fractures result ed from a fall while the patient was st and ing or walking . Most falls occurred during daylight hours with a peak seen in the afternoon . No seasonal variation in the incidence of hip fractures was observed
Ranging from the lower ambient temperature , the presence of snow cover , seasonal factors , and time of the day to location of fall , these factors have different levels of impact related to higher incidence or mortality of fall .
There existed systematic review on studies investigating the association between hip fractures and external risk factors including meteorological factors .
Albeit the fact that most serious common fall injury is a hip fracture , it can not account for all injuries forms of fall .
There was a lack of systematic review covering all fall-related injury or deaths to thoroughly summarise meteorological aspects of fall .
This study aim ed to systematic ally review epidemiological studies of fall and fall-related circumstances without restriction to hip fracture .