Mortality risk in older inner-city African Americans

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1049-1055

  Malmstrom, Theodore K ^a   Andresen, Elena M ^b,c   Wolinsky, Fredric D ^d,e   Philip Miller, J ^f   Stamps, Kathryn ^g   Miller, Douglas K ^h  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Navy Environmental Health Center   (United States)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AGING RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Disease; Health services utilization; Lower body disability; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; BODY MOVEMENT; CANCER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STROKE; SURVIVAL; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MISSOURI; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34347388829     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01204.x     Document Type: Article

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