Subjective well-being and all-cause mortality among middle-aged and elderly people living in an urban Japanese community

Japanese Journal of Geriatrics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 677-683

  Iwasa, Hajime ^a,b   Kawaai, Chieko ^b   Gondo, Yasuyuki ^b   Inagaki, Hiroki ^b   Suzuki, Takao ^b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cox's hazard model; Middle aged and elderly people; Prediction of mortality; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344448272     PISSN: 03009173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3143/geriatrics.42.677     Document Type: Article

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