Gender-specific associations of vision and hearing impairments with adverse health outcomes in older Japanese: A population-based cohort study

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Michikawa, Takehiro ^a   Nishiwaki, Yuji ^a   Kikuchi, Yuriko ^a   Nakano, Makiko ^a   Iwasawa, Satoko ^a   Asakura, Keiko ^a   Milojevic, Ai ^a   Mizutari, Kunio ^a   Saito, Hideyuki ^a   Ishida, Susumu ^b   Okamura, Tomonori ^c   Takebayashi, Toru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 75149148052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-9-50     Document Type: Article

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