TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Falls in older aged adults in 22 European countries: incidence, mortality and burden of disease from 1990 to 2017
JO  - Injury prevention
A1  - Haagsma, Juanita A.
A1  - Olij, Branko F.
A1  - Majdan, Marek
A1  - Van Beeck, Ed F.
A1  - Vos, Theo
A1  - Castle, Chris D.
A1  - Dingels, Zachary V.
A1  - Fox, Jack T.
A1  - Hamilton, Erin B.
A1  - Liu, Zichen
A1  - Roberts, Nicholas L. S.
A1  - Sylte, Dillon O.
A1  - Aremu, Olatunde
A1  - Bärnighausen, Till Winfried
A1  - Borzì, Antonio Maria
A1  - Briggs, Andrew M.
A1  - Carrero, Juan J.
A1  - Cooper, Cyrus
A1  - El-Khatib, Ziad
A1  - Ellingsen, Christian Lycke
A1  - Fereshtehnejad, Seyed-Mohammad
A1  - Filip, Irina
A1  - Fischer, Florian
A1  - Haro, Josep Maria
A1  - Jonas, Jost B.
A1  - Kiadaliri, Aliasghar A.
A1  - Koyanagi, Ai
A1  - Lunevicius, Raimundas
A1  - Meretoja, Tuomo J.
A1  - Mohammed, Shafiu
A1  - Pathak, Ashish
A1  - Radfar, Amir
A1  - Rawaf, Salman
A1  - Rawaf, David Laith
A1  - Riera, Lidia Sanchez
A1  - Shiue, Ivy
A1  - Vasankari, Tommi Juhani
A1  - James, Spencer L.
A1  - Polinder, Suzanne
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - INTRODUCTION: Falls in older aged adults are an important public health problem. Insight into differences in fall-related injury rates between countries can serve as important input for identifying and evaluating prevention strategies. The objectives of this study were to compare Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 estimates on incidence, mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to fall-related injury in older adults across 22 countries in the Western European region and to examine changes over a 28-year period. <br><br>METHODS: We performed a secondary database descriptive study using the GBD 2017 results on age-standardised fall-related injury in older adults aged 70 years and older in 22 countries from 1990 to 2017. <br><br>RESULTS: In 2017, in the Western European region, 13 840 per 100 000 (uncertainty interval (UI) 11 837-16 113) older adults sought medical treatment for fall-related injury, ranging from 7594 per 100 000 (UI 6326-9032) in Greece to 19 796 per 100 000 (UI 15 536-24 233) in Norway. Since 1990, fall-related injury DALY rates showed little change for the whole region, but patterns varied widely between countries. Some countries (eg, Belgium and Netherlands) have lost their favourable positions due to an increasing fall-related injury burden of disease since 1990. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: From 1990 to 2017, there was considerable variation in fall-related injury incidence, mortality, DALY rates and its composites in the 22 countries in the Western European region. It may be useful to assess which fall prevention measures have been taken in countries that showed continuous low or decreasing incidence, death and DALY rates despite ageing of the population.<br><br>© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1353-8047
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043347
ID  - ref1
ER  -