TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Inferior physical performance test results of 10,998 men in the MrOS Study is associated with high fracture risk
JO  - Age and ageing
A1  - Rosengren, Björn E.
A1  - Ribom, Eva L.
A1  - Nilsson, Jan-Åke
A1  - Mallmin, Hans
A1  - Ljunggren, Osten
A1  - Ohlsson, Claes
A1  - Mellström, Dan
A1  - Lorentzon, Mattias
A1  - Stefanick, Marcia L.
A1  - Lapidus, Jodi
A1  - Leung, Ping Chung
A1  - Kwok, Anthony
A1  - Barrett-Connor, Elizabeth
A1  - Orwoll, Eric
A1  - Karlsson, Magnus K.
SP  - 339
EP  - 344
VL  - 41
IS  - 3
N2  - Background: most fractures are preceded by falls.Objective: the aim of this study was to determine whether tests of physical performance are associated with fractures.Subjects: a total of 10,998 men aged 65 years or above were recruited.Methods: questionnaires evaluated falls sustained 12 months before administration of the grip strength test, the timed stand test, the six-metre walk test and the twenty-centimetre narrow walk test. Means with 95% confidence interval (95% CI) are reported. P < 0.05 is a statistically significant difference.Results: fallers with a fracture performed worse than non-fallers on all tests (all P < 0.001). Fallers with a fracture performed worse than fallers with no fractures both on the right-hand-grip strength test and on the six-metre walk test (P < 0.001). A score below -2 standard deviations in the right-hand-grip strength test was associated with an odds ratio of 3.9 (95% CI: 2.1-7.4) for having had a fall with a fracture compared with having had no fall and with an odds ratio of 2.6 (95% CI: 1.3-5.2) for having had a fall with a fracture compared with having had a fall with no fracture.Conclusion: the right-hand-grip strength test and the six-metre walk test performed by old men help discriminate fallers with a fracture from both fallers with no fracture and non-fallers.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-0729
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afs010
ID  - ref1
ER  -