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Pekka Kannus, MD, PhD, Jari Parkkari, MD, PhD, Seppo Niemi and Mika Palvanen, MD, PhD

Pekka Kannus, Seppo Niemi, and Mika Palvanen are with the Accident & Trauma Research Center, President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Institute for Health Promotion Research, Tampere, Finland. Pekka Kannus is also with the Department of Surgery, Tampere University Medical School and University Hospital, Tampere, Finland. Jari Parkkari is with Tampere Research Center of Sports Medicine, President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Institute for Health Promotion Research.

View larger version (13K): [in a new window]   FIGURE 1—— Secular trends in fall-induced deaths among elderly Finns aged 50 years or older: (a) age-adjusted incidence (per 100000 persons) between 1971 and 2002; (b) number of deaths between 1971 and 2002 and prediction of the development until the year 2030.