Socioeconomic status is associated with frailty: The Women's Health and Aging Studies

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-67

  Szanton, S L ^a   Seplaki, C L ^b   Thorpe Jr , R J ^b   Allen, J K ^c   Fried, L P ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

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

^d Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VULNERABILITY; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TELEPHONE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 74049157661     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2008.078428     Document Type: Article

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