No increased mortality risk in older persons with unexplained anaemia

Age and Ageing

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 501-506

  Willems, Jorien M ^a   Den Elzen, Wendy P J ^a   Vlasveld, L Tom ^a,b   Westendorp, Rudi G J ^a   Gussekloo, Jacobijn ^a   De Craen, Anton J M ^a   Blauw, Gerard J ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Elderly; Mortality risk; Unexplained

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING HABIT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; NETHERLANDS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84864003772     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs031     Document Type: Article

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