Body mass index as a predictor of mortality in community-dwelling seniors

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 205-210

  Inoue, Kazuo ^a   Shono, Teiji ^a   Toyokawa, Satoshi ^a   Kawakami, Masahumi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Towa Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Cohort study; Community dwelling; Elderly people; Mortality

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL STAFF; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURALGIA; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746134805     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324650     Document Type: Article

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