Anthropometric measurements as a predictor of mortality of community-dwelling Japanese elderly: The Nagoya Longitudinal Study of Frail Elderly (NLS-FE)

Japanese Journal of Geriatrics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 212-218

  Enoki, Hiromi ^a   Kuzuya, Masafumi ^a   Masuda, Yuichiro ^a   Hirakawa, Yoshihisa ^a   Iwata, Mitsunaga ^a   Izawa, Sachiko ^a   Hasegawa, Jun ^a   Iguchi, Akihisa ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthropometric measurements; Elderly; Malnourishment; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34248640885     PISSN: 03009173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3143/geriatrics.44.212     Document Type: Article

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