Diabetes Complications

Columbia study shows elderly with diabetes at increased risk for falling

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, October 10th, 2005

Falling is the leading cause of accidental death for elderly people, and a new study from Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital/The Allen Pavilion suggests that nursing home residents with diabetes are four times more likely to fall than those who are not diabetic.

The study, published in the September issue of the Journal of Gerontology, found that 78% of nursing home residents who had diabetes fell within the 299-day study period, compared to 30% of those without diabetes who had a similar fall. The study followed 139 residents of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale in New York.

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