Alzheimer's disease as a cause of death in the United States

Public Health Reports

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 497-505

  Hoyert, Donna L ^a,b   Rosenberg, Harry M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^b NCHS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DEATH; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS (U.S.); POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030734939     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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