Seven-year survival rate after age 85 years: Relation to Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1226-1232

  Aevarsson, Ólafur ^a,c   Svanborg, Alvar ^b   Skoog, Ingmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031721424     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.55.9.1226     Document Type: Article

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