A mortality comparison ot participants and non-participants in a comprehensive health examination among elderly people living in an urban Japanese community

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 240-245

  Iwasa, Hajime ^a   Yoshida, Hideyo ^a   Kim, Hunkyung ^a   Yoshida, Yuko ^a   Kwon, Jinhee ^a   Sugiura, Miho ^a   Furuna, Taketo ^b   Suzuki, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

All cause mortality; Comprehensive health examination for the elderly; Prevention of geriatric syndromes and long term care dependence; Self selection bias

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 34447251648     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324696     Document Type: Article

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