Health-related quality of life in nonagenarians: gender, functional status and nutritional risk as associated factors;Calidad de vida en nonagenarios: género, funcionalidad y riesgo nutricional como factores asociados

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 134, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 303-306

  Ferrer, Assumpta ^a   Formiga, Francesc ^b   Almeda, Jesús ^c,d   Alonso, Jordi ^e   Brotons, Carlos ^f   Pujol, Ramón ^b  

^a CAP I   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^c Unitat de Suport a la Recerca de Costa de Ponent   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^f Unidad de Investigacion   (Spain)

Author keywords

Functional status; Nonagenarians; Nutritional risk; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENDER; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NONAGENARIAN; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77949317828     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2009.06.070     Document Type: Article

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