Short-term all-cause mortality and its determinants in elderly male populations in Finland, the Netherlands, and Italy: The fine study

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 319-326

  Menotti, Alessandro ^a   Kromhout, Daan ^b   Nissinen, Aulikki ^c   Giampaoli, Simona ^d   Seccareccia, Fulvia ^d   Feskens, Edith ^b   Pekkanen, Juha ^e   Tervahauta, Markku ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

elderly; mortality; prediction; risk factors

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FINLAND; HUMAN; ITALY; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0029931529     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1996.0062     Document Type: Article

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