Feeling tired predicts functional status, physical activity, and mortality in elderly people

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 742-743

  Moreh, Elior ^a   Jacobs, Jeremy M ^a   Stessman, Jochanan ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LETTER; LOG RANK TEST; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SLEEP DISORDER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 63849168949     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02214.x     Document Type: Letter

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