Marital and cohabitation status as predictors of mortality: A 10-year follow-up of an Italian elderly cohort

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1456-1464

  Scafato, Emanuele ^a   Galluzzo, Lucia ^a   Gandin, Claudia ^a   Ghirini, Silvia ^a   Baldereschi, Marzia ^b   Capurso, Antonio ^c   Maggi, Stefania ^b   Farchi, Gino ^a   for the ILSA Working Group, ^d  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d Aging Section ^*

Author keywords

Cohabitation status; Elderly; Gender; Italy; Longitudinal study; Marital status; Mortality

Indexed keywords

COHABITATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELDERLY POPULATION; MODELING; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RISK; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SINGLE MAN; SINGLE WOMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MORTALITY; SINGLE PERSON; SPOUSES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 50949130586     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.06.026     Document Type: Article

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