TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fonteyn, E. M. R.
AU  - Schmitz-Hübsch, T.
AU  - Verstappen, C. C. P.
AU  - Baliko, L.
AU  - Bloem, B. R.
AU  - Boesch, S.
AU  - Bunn, L.
AU  - Giunti, P.
AU  - Globas, C.
AU  - Klockgether, T.
AU  - Melegh, B.
AU  - Pandolfo, M.
AU  - Schöls, L.
AU  - Timmann, D.
AU  - van de Warrenburg, B. P. C.
TI  - Prospective analysis of falls in dominant ataxias.
JO  - European neurology
VL  - 69
IS  - 1
SN  - 1421-9913
CY  - Basel
PB  - Karger
M1  - DZNE-2020-03051
SP  - 53-57
PY  - 2013
AB  - In a previous retrospective study, we demonstrated that falls are common and often injurious in dominant spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) and that nonataxia features play an important role in these falls. Retrospective surveys are plagued by recall bias for the presence and details of prior falls. We therefore sought to corroborate and extend these retrospective findings by means of a prospective extension of this fall study. 113 patients with SCA1, SCA2, SCA3 or SCA6, recruited from the EuroSCA natural history study, were asked to keep a fall diary in between their annual visits to the participating centres. Additionally, patients completed a detailed questionnaire about the first three falls, to identify specific fall circumstances. Relevant disease characteristics were retrieved from the EuroSCA registry. 84.1
KW  - Accidental Falls: statistics & numerical data
KW  - Adult
KW  - Aged
KW  - Aged, 80 and over
KW  - Female
KW  - Humans
KW  - Longitudinal Studies
KW  - Male
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Prevalence
KW  - Prospective Studies
KW  - Spinocerebellar Ataxias: complications
KW  - Spinocerebellar Ataxias: epidemiology
KW  - Spinocerebellar Ataxias: genetics
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:23146840
DO  - DOI:10.1159/000342907
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/136729
ER  -