Lifestyle risk factors predict disability and death in healthy aging adults

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 190-197

  Chakravarty, Eliza F ^a   Hubert, Helen B ^b   Krishnan, Eswar ^b   Bruce, Bonnie B ^b   Lingala, Vijaya B ^b   Fries, James F ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Disability; Exercise; Longitudinal study; Mortality; Smoking; Weight

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SMOKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; DISABLED PERSONS; EXERCISE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SMOKING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856078257     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.08.006     Document Type: Article

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