Smoking and mortality in the oldest-old, evidence from a prospective cohort of 56,000 Hong Kong Chinese [1]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2090-2091

  Lam, Tai Hing ^a   Schooling, C Mary ^a   Li, Zhi Bin ^a   Ho, Sai Yin ^a   Chan, Wai Man ^b   Ho, Kin Sang ^b   Tham, May Ked ^b   Cowling, Benjamin J ^a   Leung, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BODY MASS; CHINESE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING;

EID: 36849061747     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01441.x     Document Type: Letter

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