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 .
Falls, elderly women and the cold.
In a prospect i ve study of falls in 761 subjects 70 years and over an increase in the rate of falls in winter was observed in women but not men . When the daily minimum temperature fell to 1 degrees C or less the relative risk of falling in women increased to 1.53 ( 95 % confidence intervals 1.21 - 1.84 ) . We discuss measures to decrease this seasonal increase in the rate of falls
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 .