PREDICTING FALLS IN OLDER ADULTS: AN UMBRELLA REVIEW OF INSTRUMENTS ASSESSING GAIT, BALANCE, AND FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY

Predicting falls in older adults: an umbrella review of instruments assessing gait, balance, and functional mobility

Abstract Background To review the validated instruments that assess gait, balance, and functional mobility to predict falls in older adults across different settings.Methods Umbrella review of narrative- and systematic reviews with or without meta-analyses of all study types.Reviews that focused on older adults in any settings and included validate

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Exon Array Analysis using re-defined probe sets results in reliable identification of alternatively spliced genes in non-small cell lung cancer

Abstract Background Treatment of non-small cell lung cancer with novel targeted therapies is a major unmet clinical need.Alternative splicing is a mechanism which generates diverse protein products and is of functional relevance in cancer.Results In this study, a genome-wide analysis of the alteration of splicing patterns between lung cancer and no

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