Psychiatric epidemiology of old age: The H70 study - The NAPE Lecture 2003

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 4-18

  Skoog, I ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Geriatric psychiatry

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STROKE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SWEDEN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SWEDEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0742321809     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1600-0447.2003.00260.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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