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Cynthia L. Arfken
Researcher at Washington University in St. Louis
Publications - 20
Citations - 2113
Cynthia L. Arfken is an academic researcher from Washington University in St. Louis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Diabetes mellitus & Retinopathy. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 20 publications receiving 2038 citations.
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The prevalence and correlates of fear of falling in elderly persons living in the community.
TL;DR: Fear of falling is common in elderly persons and is associated with decreased quality of life, increased frailty, and recent experience with falls, and being very fearful of falling was associated with all of the above plus decreased mobility and social activities.
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Clock Completion: An Objective Screening Test for Dementia
TL;DR: A simple, readily administered and scored screening test for dementia utilizing the clock‐drawing task is developed.
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Factors Responsible for Impaired Fibrinolysis in Obese Subjects and NIDDM Patients
TL;DR: Obese and diabetic subjects had threefold elevations of plasma concentrations of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) compared with values in lean control subjects and both basal and stimulated endogenous fibrinolytic activities were decreased.
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Frailty and injuries in later life: the FICSIT trials
Marcia G. Ory,Kenneth B. Schechtman,J. P. Miller,E. C. Hadley,M. A. Fiatarone,Michael A. Province,Cynthia L. Arfken,D.P. Morgan,S. Weiss,M. Kaplan +9 more
TL;DR: This report documents the history and organization of the trials and provides an overview of the measures being collected at multiple sites and the analytic strategies to be used for multi‐site investigations.
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Falls in the elderly: reliability of a classification system
Helen W. Lach,A. T. Reed,Cynthia L. Arfken,J. P. Miller,Gary D. Paige,Stanley J. Birge,W. A. Peck +6 more
TL;DR: A fall classification system was developed and tested for interrater reliability and provides operational definitions for types of falls and a reliable and flexible method for classifying falls in the elderly.