Activity and Function in the Elderly in Ulm (ActiFE-Ulm)
Initiatives
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To investigate the relationship between physical activity and two measures of fall incidence in an elderly population using person-years as well as hours walked as denominators and to compare these two approaches.
*Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.*
- Start Year
- 2009
- Funding
- The study was funded by a grant from the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts, state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, as part of the Geriatric Competence Center, Ulm University (http://mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de). Kilian Rapp and Michael Denkinger were supported by a “Forschungskolleg Geriatrie” grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany (http://www.bosch-stiftung.de).
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Prospective cohort study with one-year follow-up of falls using fall calendars.
Marker Paper
Klenk J, Kerse N, Rapp K, Nikolaus T, Becker C, Rothenbacher D, et al. (2015) Physical Activity and Different Concepts of Fall Risk Estimation in Older People–Results of the ActiFE-Ulm Study. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0129098. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129098
PUBMED 26058056
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 1,214
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Older people (≥65 years), located in Ulm and adjacent regions in Southern Germany.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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