Table 3.
Proportion of fallers | Fall events | |||||||
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Healthy subjects N = 56 |
Cerebellar disorders N = 80 |
Healthy subjects N = 9 falls |
Cerebellar disorders N = 313 |
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N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Fall epidemiology | ||||||||
No falls | 47 | 84 | 28 | 36 | – | – | – | – |
Occasional fall | 9 | 16 | 18 | 23 | 9 | 100 | 18 | 6 |
Frequent falls | 0 | 0 | 34 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 295 | 94 |
Chi2 < 0.001 | Chi2 < 0.001 | |||||||
Fall severity (HFGS) | N = 18 | N = 925 | ||||||
1 | 4 | 31 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 50 | 612 | 66 |
2 | 5 | 38 | 44 | 63 | 5 | 20 | 293 | 32 |
3 | 4 | 31 | 14 | 18 | 4 | 22 | 16 | 2 |
4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Chi2 < 0.001 | Chi2 < 0.001 |
Information on falls epidemiology on considers actual fall events (excluding near-fall events). Information on falls severity considers both fall and near-fall events
HFGS, Hopkins falls grading scale