Cohort profile: The longitudinal aging study Amsterdam

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 868-876

  Huisman, Martijn ^a,b   Poppelaars, Jan ^a,b   van der Horst, Marleen ^a   Beekman, Aartjan T F ^a   Brug, Johannes ^a   van Tilburg, Theo G ^b   Deeg, Dorly J H ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMOTION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; REGISTRIES;

AMSTERDAM [NORTH HOLLAND]; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND;

EID: 79960093780     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyq219     Document Type: Article

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