Factors predicting 2-year cognitive decline in nonagenarians without cognitive impairment at baseline: The nonasantfeliu study [11]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1152-1154

  Formiga, Francesc ^a   Ferrer, Assumpta ^b   Reñe, Ramon ^a   Riera, Antoni ^a   Gascon, Jordi ^a   Pujol, Ramón ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b Primary Health Care Centre El Pla CAP I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 34347376150     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01229.x     Document Type: Letter

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