Burden and Correlates of Falls among Rural Elders of South India: Mobility and Independent Living in Elders Study.

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Published in Curr Gerontol Geriatr Res on June 13, 2017

Authors

Pawan Kumar Sharma1, Clareann H Bunker2, Tushar Singh2, Enakshi Ganguly1, P Sudhakar Reddy1, Anne B Newman2, Jane A Cauley2

Author Affiliations

1: SHARE India, MediCiti Institute of Medical Sciences, Telangana, India.
2: Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

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