Serum cholesterol levels as a measure of frailty in elderly patients

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 169-179

  Ranieri, Piera ^a   Rozzini, Renzo ^a   Franzoni, Simone ^a   Barbisoni, Piera ^a   Trabucchi, Marco ^a  

^a GERIATRIC RESEARCH GROUP   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHOLESTEROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031922325     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/036107398244300     Document Type: Article

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