Mortality and heart rate in the elderly: Role of cognitive impairment

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 127-144

  Cacciatore, Francesco ^a   Mazzella, Francesca ^b   Abete, Pasquale ^b   Viati, Luisa ^a,b   Galizia, Gianluigi ^b   D'Ambrosio, Daniele ^b   Gargiulo, Gaetano ^b   Russo, Salvatore ^b   Visconti, Claudia ^b   Della Morte, David ^b   Ferrara, Nicola ^a,c   Rengo, Franco ^a,b  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOM SAMPLE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CAUSE OF DEATH; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847717600     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730601166372     Document Type: Article

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