Chronic disease, functional status, and self-ascribed causes of disabilities among noninstitutionalized older people in Spain

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2002, Pages M716-M721

  Valderrama Gama, Emiliana ^a   Damiaán, Javier ^a   Ruigoómez, Ana ^b   Martiín Moreno, Joseé M ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b Department of Pharmacoepidemiology   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANCER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART DISEASE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE DISEASE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SELF REPORT; SPAIN; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 0036847659     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/57.11.M716     Document Type: Article

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