Health behaviors as predictors for declines in higher-level functional capacity in older adults: The Ohasama study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1993-2000

  Tsubota Utsugi, Megumi ^a,b   Ito Sato, Rie ^b   Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^b,e   Kikuya, Masahiro ^b   Asayama, Kei ^b   Metoki, Hirohito ^b,c   Fukushima, Naomi ^b,f   Kurimoto, Ayumi ^d   Tsubono, Yoshitaka ^b   Imai, Yutaka ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Faculty of Medicine   (Japan)

^e SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

dietary habits; elderly; functional capacity; health behaviors; Japanese

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; EATING; EXERCISE; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAL; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SELF EVALUATION; SLEEP; SMOKING; SUPPLEMENTATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 81755161272     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03633.x     Document Type: Article

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