Religious attendance and 12-year survival in older persons [7]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 406-409

  Teinonen, Timo ^a   Vahlberg, Tero ^b   Isoaho, Raimo ^b   Kivela Sirkka Liisa ^b  

^a Häkä Health Centre   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL TIME; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

AGED; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; RELIGION; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 26944433493     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afi107     Document Type: Letter

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