Disability trends among older Americans: National Health and Nutrition Examination surveys, 1988-1994 and 1999-2004

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 100-107

  Seeman, Teresa E ^a   Merkin, Sharon S ^a   Crimmins, Eileen M ^b   Karlamangla, Arun S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; DISABLED PERSONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; NUTRITION SURVEYS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74049163837     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.157388     Document Type: Review

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