Serum albumin levels as an independent predictor of 4-year mortality in a community-dwelling 80-year-old population

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-35

  Takata, Yutaka ^a   Ansai, Toshihiro ^a   Soh, Inho ^a   Awano, Shuji ^a   Sonoki, Kazuo ^a   Akifusa, Sumio ^a   Kagiyama, Shuntaro ^a   Hamasaki, Tomoko ^a   Torisu, Takehiro ^a   Yoshida, Akihiro ^a   Nakamichi, Ikuo ^a   Takehara, Tadamichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Albumin; Community dwelling; Elderly; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; REGISTRATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77951861818     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: 17208319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324812     Document Type: Article

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