Environmental health and preventive medicine
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Environ Health Prev Med · Sep 2018
The association between depressive symptoms and fall accidents among middle-aged and elderly people in China.
Depressive symptoms are a worldwide health problem. However, the research about the effect of depressive symptoms on the fall among the Chinese mid-aged and elderly people is lacking. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the association between depressive symptoms and fall accidents among middle-aged and elderly people in China. ⋯ This study shows that there is a significant association between depressive symptoms and their subsequent fall accidents among the Chinese middle-aged and elderly people.