The link between major risk factors and important categories of admission in an ageing cohort

Journal of Public Health Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-89

  Hanlon, Philip ^a   Walsh, David ^b   Whyte, Bruce W ^c   Scott, Sheila N ^c   Lightbody, Pauline ^d   Gilhooly, Mary L M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Information and Statistics Division   (United Kingdom)

^c Hawkhead Rd   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute admissions; Record linkage; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034015246     PISSN: 09574832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/22.1.81     Document Type: Article

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