Peripheral nerve decline: an underappreciated cause of injurious falls
Description: PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This competing renewal will determine for the first time if poor sensorimotor peripheral nerve function, a novel potential risk factor, is associated with major clinical outcomes of fall injuries requiring medical care, fractures, total and fall-related Medicae utilization/expenditures, and mortality in older adults. In the initial funding period, we demonstrated that loss of sensorimotor peripheral nerve function is very common in both diabetic and non- diabetic older adults, has preventable risk factors, and is related to lower bone mineral density, muscle strength and physical performance. The ultimate goal is to determine if peripheral nerve testing identifies older adults at a higher risk for fall injuries, fractures and death that may benefit from preventive measures for nerve decline or clinical outcomes.
Funder: National Institute on Aging
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R01
Start date: 2007-09-15
End date: 2017-05-31
Investigator: ELSA S. STROTMEYER
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
Funded outputs count: 484
Funder award ID: R01AG028050
OpenAlex ID: G2045259167