Sociodemographic and lifestyle statistics of oldest old people (>80 years) living in ikaria island: The ikaria study

Cardiology Research and Practice

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Chrysohoou, Christina ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Siasos, Gerasimos ^a   Zisimos, Konstantinos ^a   Skoumas, John ^a   Pitsavos, Christos ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EATING HABIT; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP; SMOKING; SOCIALIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 79959476727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20900597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4061/2011/679187     Document Type: Article

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