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Robert Briggs

@rob__briggs

Consultant Geriatrician St James’s Hospital with special interest in Cognition, Falls & Syncope and Acute Geriatric Medicine.

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Our new Age_and_Ageing paper shows how ABPM biomarkers predict future falls in older people: - x4 increase in falls if dips in sBP below 100 - 3% falls reduction for every 1 mmHg increase in lowest sBP value - Higher morning surge --> more falls academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

Our new <a href="/Age_and_Ageing/">Age_and_Ageing</a> paper shows how ABPM biomarkers predict future falls in older people:

- x4 increase in falls if dips in sBP below 100
- 3% falls reduction for every 1 mmHg increase in lowest sBP value
- Higher morning surge --&gt; more falls

academic.oup.com/ageing/article…