Citation

Liu-Ambrose T, Davis JC, Khan KM. J. Am. Med. Assoc. JAMA 2019; 322(14): 1415-1416.

Affiliation

Center for Hip Health and Mobility, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Comment On:

JAMA 2019;322(14):1415.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jama.2019.12192

PMID

31593268

Abstract

In Reply Dr Cummings suggests that exercise has little benefit in preventing falls because “the risk ratio for any fall in the current study was 1.01”.1 However, the primary objective of our trial was to examine whether exercise reduced the rate of falls, not the number of people who experienced a fall. All participants had experienced at least 1 fall during the year prior to study entry, and 70% were recurrent fallers. Reducing fall rate in recurrent fallers is important...

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