Relationship of race and poverty to lower extremity function and decline: Findings from the women's health and aging study

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 811-821

  Thorpe Jr , Roland James ^a   Kasper, Judith D ^b   Szanton, Sarah L ^c   Frick, Kevin D ^b   Fried, Linda P ^a   Simonsick, Eleanor M ^d,e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional decline; Functional status; Health disparities; Lower extremity functioning; Poverty status; Race; USA; Women

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; DISABILITY; POVERTY; RACIAL DISPARITY; WALKING; WOMENS HEALTH;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POVERTY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEACHER; WALKING;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGING; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LOWER EXTREMITY; MOBILITY LIMITATION; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38749124418     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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