High vitamin B12 level: A strong predictor of mortality in elderly inpatients [7]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 917-918

  Salles, Nathalie ^a   Herrmann, François ^b   Sakbani, Ken ^b   Rapin, Charles Henri ^b   Sieber, Cornel ^c  

^a Ctr Geriatrie Ctr Hosp Univ B   (France)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALAMIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYANOCOBALAMIN;

CANCER; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; LETTER; LEUKEMIA; MORTALITY; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; PREDICTION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AGED; BLOOD; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 20444476781     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53278_7.x     Document Type: Letter

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