Morbidity in aged Finns: A systematic review

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 278-292

  Salminen, Marika ^a,b,c   Räihä, Ismo ^a,d   Heinonen, Jarna ^e   Kivelä, Sirkka Liisa ^a,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Harkatie Health Centre   (Finland)

^c TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d TURKU CITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aged; Finland; Morbidity; Population based; Review

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTHROPATHY; ASTHMA; BACKACHE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FALLING; FINLAND; GERIATRICS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HIP FRACTURE; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCONTINENCE; INFECTION; INSOMNIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MIXED INCONTINENCE; MORBIDITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEER REVIEW; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; STROKE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THYROID DISEASE; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WRIST FRACTURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 84857043539     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2011.11.003     Document Type: Review

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