Morbidity and related factors among elderly people in South Korea: Results from the Ansan Geriatric (AGE) cohort study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Woo, Eun Kyung ^a   Han, Changsu ^b   Jo, Sangmee Ahn ^a   Park, Min Kyu ^b   Kim, Sungsoo ^a   Kim, Eunkyung ^a   Park, Moon Ho ^a,b   Lee, Juyoung ^a   Jo, Inho ^a  

^a Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE SPECIFIC CARE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENDER; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH KOREA; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; KOREA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33846816712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-10     Document Type: Article

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