Multimorbidity and health-related quality of life in the older population: Results from the German KORA-Age study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hunger, Matthias ^a   Thorand, Barbara ^a   Schunk, Michaela ^a   Döring, Angela ^a   Menn, Petra ^a   Peters, Annette ^a   Holle, Rolf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIMORBIDITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; STROKE; COMORBIDITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 79960555800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-9-53     Document Type: Article

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