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American Heart Association
Preventing falls important for stroke patients
June 5th, 2008
Stroke patients are at high risk for falls and subsequent injuries after leaving the hospital, but prevention programs may reduce this risk, New Zealand researchers reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. "People who have had a stroke fall almost twice as often as people who haven't had a stroke," said Ngaire Kerse, Ph.D., lead author of the study and associate professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Healthcare at the School of Population Health in the University of Auckland, New Zealand. "Falls are very common and risk factors for falls are easy to identify. We need to emphasize fall prevention during stroke services when...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-06-05)
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