1 Centre for International Health, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2 Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand, 3 Department of Medicine, Radboud University Njimegen Medical Centre, Njimegen, The Netherlands, 4 Centre for International Child Health, Depart...

Rachael McLean 1,2,*, Julia Edmonds 1, Sheila Williams 2, Jim Mann 1 and Sheila Skeaff 1 1 Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; [email protected] (J.E.); [email protected] (J.M.); [email protected] (S.S.) 2 Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054...

Evidence-based falls management programs in the community should be considered when referring older persons to appropriate programs and resources. Unfortunately, few programs are available at this time for widespread dissemination. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently conducting several dissemination projects for 3 programs, including Stepping On, a behavioral change prog...

BACKGROUND Previous research has mainly targeted older people with high risk of falling. The effectiveness of exercise interventions in older people with mild levels of balance dysfunction remains unexplored. OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the effectiveness of a home balance and strength exercise intervention in older people systematically screened as having mild balance dysfunction. DESIGN...

1 2 Progressive development of cardiomyopathy following altered autonomic 3 activity in status epilepticus 4 5 M I Read, D M McCann, R N Millen, J C Harrison, D S Kerr, and I A Sammut, 6 Department of Pharmacology, University of Otago School of Medical Sciences, Dunedin, 7 New Zealand. 8 9 Running title: Sympathetic activity in seizure-induced cardiomyopathy. 10 11 ‡ Corresponding author: 12 As...

4 Janneke M. Brussee, Tsin W. Yeo, Daniel A. Lampah, Nicholas M. Anstey, Stephen B. 5 Duffull* 6 7 1. Otago Pharmacometrics Group, School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New 8 Zealand 9 2. Division of Pharmacology, LACDR, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands 10 3. Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research and Charles 11 Darwin University, Darwin, NT...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this investigation was to study the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) based on a multicentre fall prevention intervention including exercise with or without motivational interviewing compared to standard care in community-living people 75 years and older. METHOD The feasibility of a three-armed, randomised controlled trial was evaluated according to the f...