Design and descriptive characteristics of the GHRAS: The Greek Health Randomized Aging Study

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Kanoni, Stavroula ^a   Dedoussis, George V ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cohort; Diet; Elderly; GHRAS study; Health status

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; MENTAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 42049119195     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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