Activity of daily living disability and dialysis mortality: Better prediction using metrics of aging

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1981-1982

  McAdams Demarco, Mara A ^a,b   Law, Andrew ^a,b   Garonzik Wang, Jacqueline M ^a,b   Gimenez, Luis ^a,c   Jaar, Bernard G ^a,b,c   Walston, Jeremy D ^a   Segev, Dorry L ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 84867470992     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04161.x     Document Type: Letter

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