Physical activity and injurious falls in older Australian women: adjusted associations and modification by physical function limitation and frailty in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health.

Introduction There is an increasing trend of hospitalisation for fall-related injuries among people aged 65+, with three-quarters of all injury-related hospitalisations resulting from a fall [ 1 ].

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Results from cross-sectional analyses Primary cross-sectional analyses in 2016 showed various amounts and types of LPA participation were associated with lower odds of injurious falls, except borderline significance for moderate-vigorous LPA (OR 0.86, 95% CI 0.73–1.01) ( Table 2 ), compared with no LPA.

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