Diabetes as a predictor of mortality in a cohort of blind subjects

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1038-1043

  Trautner, Christoph ^a   Icks, Andrea ^a   Haastert, Burkhard ^a   Plum, Frank ^b   Berger, Michael ^a   Giani, Guido ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blindness; Comparative mortality figure; Cox proportional hazards regression; Diabetes; Mortality; Population based register; Standardized mortality ratio; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENDER; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029914029     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/25.5.1038     Document Type: Article

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