Lower frailty incidence in older Mexican Americans than in Older European Americans: The San Antonio longitudinal study of aging

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2142-2148

  Espinoza, Sara E ^a,c   Jung, Inkyung ^b   Hazuda, Helen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnic differences; frailty; older adults

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EXHAUSTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAIL ELDERLY; GENDER; GRIP STRENGTH; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART INFARCTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; OSTEOPOROSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; URINE INCONTINENCE; VELOCITY; WALKING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78449305795     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03153.x     Document Type: Article

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