Routine physical activity and mortality in Mexican Americans aged 75 and older

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1085-1091

  Ottenbacher, Allison J ^a   Snih, Soham A ^b   Karmarkar, Amol ^a   Lee, Jinhyung ^b   Samper Ternent, Rafael ^b   Kumar, Amit ^b   Bindawas, Saad ^b,d   Markides, Kyriakos S ^c   Ottenbacher, Kenneth J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Activity; Aging; Exercise; Hispanic; Minority health

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SITTING; SMOKING HABIT; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MORTALITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862168442     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.03995.x     Document Type: Article

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