Looking at the relationship between hemoglobin concentration and prevalent mobility difficulty in older women. Should the criteria currently used to define anemia in older people be reevaluated?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1257-1264

  Chaves, Paulo H M ^a,b,c,d   Ashar, Bimal ^a   Guralnik, Jack M ^e   Fried, Linda P ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Frailty; Hemoglobin; Mobility disability; Older

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; WALKING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036068398     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50313.x     Document Type: Article

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