Injuries Among the Elderly in Light of their Health Condition | ISAC
Collaboration between ISAC members and colleagues from other divisions of the Department of Global Public Health and other Departments at KI.
To date, a range of studies have been conducted on fall injuries and road traffic injuries. More recently, we initiated studies on poisoning
As the association between health condition and injury may vary with age and for different types of injury, focus is placed on injuries among people aged 65 years and over and it is planned to investigate a variety of injury causes.
Publications
Patterns in health-related behaviours and fall injuries among older people: a population-based study in Stockholm County, Sweden.
Helgadottir B, Moller J, Laflamme L
Age Ageing 2015 Jul;44(4):604-10
Type, number or both? A population-based matched case-control study on the risk of fall injuries among older people and number of medications beyond fall-inducing drugs.
Laflamme L, Monárrez-Espino J, Johnell K, Elling B, Möller J
PLoS ONE 2015 ;10(3):e0123390
CYP2D6-inhibiting drugs and the increased risk of fall-related injuries due to newly initiated opioid treatment--a Swedish, register-based case-crossover study.
Möller J, Laflamme L, Söderberg Löfdal K
Basic Clin. Pharmacol. Toxicol. 2015 Feb;116(2):134-9