Food diversity is closely associated with activities of daily living, depression, and quality of life in community-dwelling elderly people: Letters to the editor

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 922-924

  Kimura, Yumi ^a   Wada, Taizo ^b   Ishine, Masayuki ^c   Ishimoto, Yasuko ^a   Kasahara, Yoriko ^a   Konno, Akiko ^a   Nakatsuka, Masahiro ^a   Sakamoto, Ryota ^c   Okumiya, Kiyohito ^c   Fujisawa, Michiko ^b   Otsuka, Kuniaki ^d   Matsubayashi, Kozo ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^d TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOOD; GERIATRICS; GERONTOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; DEPRESSION; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 65449182708     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02235.x     Document Type: Letter

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