Relationships between n-terminal pro b-type natriuretic peptide and incident disability and mortality in older community-dwelling adults: The tsurugaya study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2439-2441

  Hozawa, Atsushi ^a   Sugawara, Yumi ^b   Tomata, Yasutake ^b   Kakizaki, Masako ^b   Ohmori Matsuda, Kaori ^b   Nakaya, Naoki ^c   Kuriyama, Shinichi ^b   Fukao, Akira ^a   Tsuji, Ichiro ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KAMAKURA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COGNITION; COMMUNITY; DISABILITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MORTALITY; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE;

EID: 78650117157     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03190.x     Document Type: Letter

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