J 2019

Falls in anaemic hospitalized elderly patients in 2012-2016 - mutual relationships

WEBER, Pavel, Dana WEBEROVÁ, Hana MATĚJOVSKÁ KUBEŠOVÁ, Hana MELUZÍNOVÁ, Jiří JARKOVSKÝ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Falls in anaemic hospitalized elderly patients in 2012-2016 - mutual relationships

Authors

WEBER, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Dana WEBEROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Hana MATĚJOVSKÁ KUBEŠOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Hana MELUZÍNOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jiří JARKOVSKÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Katarína BIELAKOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Jana HRUBANOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Vlasta POLCAROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Advances in Gerontology, Eskulap, 2019, 1561-9125

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30205 Hematology

Country of publisher

Russian Federation

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/19:00112866

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

Keywords in English

Old age; falls; anaemia; multi-morbidity; anaemia of chronich diseases (ACD)

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 25/9/2020 09:02, Mgr. Tereza Miškechová

Abstract

V originále

Objectives: Although falls are more prevalent as ageing proceeds, it cannot be assumed that they happen due to ageing alone. Background: The retrospective cohort study of data was targeted to make an analysis of prevalence of falls in anaemic patients in comparison to the non-anaemic elderly admitted to the acute geriatric department and evaluation of pertinent influence of age, gender and immobility on occurrence of falls. Patients and Methods: During the considered period of four years (2012-2016) the authors treated 9,363 elderly patients aged 79.9±8.6 y. (in the majority of them 65+ y.). Among them there were 8,809 non-anaemic and subgroup of 551 old anaemic patients (aged 81±7.0 y.) with decreased haemoglobin (< 110 g/l). Results: Falls at hospital admission in average was present in 1,766 non-anaemic persons (20.0%) in comparison to 380 falls among anaemic patients (68.6%). Prevalence in anaemic subgroup is statistically significant higher (p <0.005). Also relation between falls and age, ADL and MMSE test and mobility is highly statistically significant (p <0.001). Meaningfully higher is occurrence of repeated falls in the anaemic subgroup in comparison to the non-anaemic one (41.2%: 1.7%) The occurrence of falls in female gender in comparison to men is statistically significant higher in non-anaemic patients, not in anaemic group. Conclusions: Authors emphasize that anaemia appears to us as significant risk factor for falls in the elderly.