Association between vision-specific quality of life and falls in community-dwelling older adults: LOHAS.

Falls and fall-related fractures are a major public health problem among the older adults. Although objective measures of poor vision have been reported to be associated with falls, the association of self-reported visual function and vision-specific quality of life (QOL) with falls has been inconsi...

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Main Authors: Kakuya Niihata, Shingo Fukuma, Yoshimune Hiratsuka, Koichi Ono, Masakazu Yamada, Miho Sekiguchi, Koji Otani, Shinichi Kikuchi, Shinichi Konno, Shunichi Fukuhara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5978984?pdf=render