Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Disability among the Near Elderly: A Longitudinal Analysis

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 487-515

  Ostermann, Jan ^b   Sloan, Frank A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL SECURITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CAUSALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0043196744     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00219     Document Type: Article

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