… in hip fracture rates. To investigate this possibility, we undertook a prospective study of
falls among elderly Japanese men and women living in Hawaii using intensive surveillance …

… Hip fractures usually occur after a fall, and differing incidence rates of falls might explain the
… fracture rates. In support of this hypothesis, the incidence of falls among Japanese in Hawaii …

… have about half the incidence of falls reported for … first falls after adjusting for other risk factors
associated with falls. Characteristics not associated with falls among our Japanese women, …

… The methods for determining incidence of falls in this study have previously been
described … falls between Japanese and white women. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 54:M288–M292 …

… , including bone mass and fall-related factors [10, 11]. We reported earlier that the incidence
and prevalence of falls among Japanese (both in Japan and Hawaii) is approximately half …

… regarding how changes in lifestyle affect the pattern of … rates of hip fracture incidence for
Japanese Americans living in Hawaii with the rates of a native Japanese population living …

… that the incidence of falls among Japanese women is about half that of white women. The …
Anecdotal information suggests that elderly Japanese in Japan and Hawaii are less likely to …

… among Japanese than among other people in Hawaii. In 1960 the mortality rate from cerebral
hemorrhage for Hawaiian whites was 44.7 per 100,000 and for Hawaiian Japanese it was …

… If the incidence data paralleled the mortality data, die effect of the secular trends during the
… between the Japan and Honolulu incidence findings. Since there is little difference between …

… differences in hip fracture rates. To investigate this possibility we undertook a prospective
study of falls among elderly Japanese men (n = 436) and women (n = 637) living in the United …