Leisure time physical activity and mortality in Hong Kong: Case-control study of all adult deaths in 1998

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 391-398

  Lam, Tai Hing ^a   Ho, Sai Yin ^a   Hedley, Anthony J ^a   Mak, Kwok Hang ^b   Leung, Gabriel M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

95 CI; 95 confidence intervals; Case Control Study; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; COPD; Hong Kong; ICD 9; International Classification of Diseases; Mortality; Ninth Revision; odds ratio; OR; Physical Activity

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EDUCATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LEISURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; WORK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 3142738785     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2003.09.005     Document Type: Article

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