Morbidity of Tokyo-area centenarians and its relationship to functional status

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 774-782

  Takayama, Michiyo ^a   Hirose, Nobuyoshi ^a   Arai, Yasumichi ^a   Gondo, Yasuyuki ^b   Shimizu, Kenichiro ^a,c   Ebihara, Yoshinori ^a   Yamamura, Ken ^a   Nakazawa, Susumu ^a   Inagaki, Hiroki ^b   Masui, Yukie ^b   Kitagawa, Koji ^d  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Health Care Center   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU BUNKA GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CATARACT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DRUG THERAPY; JAPAN; NEOPLASM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASMS; TOKYO;

EID: 34548425592     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/62.7.774     Document Type: Article

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