Association of blindness and hearing impairment with mortality in a cohort of elderly persons in a rural area

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 208-212

  Agrawal, Nilesh ^a   Kalaivani, M ^a   Gupta, Sanjeev K ^a   Misra, Puneet ^a   Anand, K ^a   Pandav, Chandrakant S ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Blindness; cohort; elderly; hearing impairment; mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155145472     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.86522     Document Type: Article

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