J-shaped relationship between resting pulse rate and all-cause mortality in community-dwelling older people with disabilities [9]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 367-368

  Kuzuya, Masafumi ^a   Enoki, Hiromi ^a   Iwata, Mitsunaga ^a   Hasegawa, Jun ^a   Hirakawa, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECUBITUS; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRESCRIPTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PULSE RATE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; REST;

EID: 38549129654     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01512.x     Document Type: Letter

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