Homocysteine and disability in hospitalized geriatric patients

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1016-1020

  Marengoni, Alessandra ^a,b   Cossi, Stefania ^a,b   De Martinis, Monica ^a,b   Calabrese, Paolo A ^a,b   Orini, Stefania ^a,b   Grassi, Vittorio ^a,b  

^a Geriatric Unit   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; SERUM ALBUMIN; TRANSFERRIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 3343013967     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2004.03.008     Document Type: Article

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