Self-Rated Health Assessment and Development of Both Cardiovascular and Dementing Illnesses in an Ambulatory Elderly Population a Report from the Bronx Longitudinal Aging Study

Heart Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 201-205

  Weisen, Steven F ^a   Frishman, William H ^b,c   Aronson, Miriam K ^b   Wassertheil Smoller, Sylvia ^b  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0033188463     PISSN: 1521737X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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