Secular trends in lung function and its relation to survival in Swedish 75 year olds 1976-2006

Age and Ageing

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 735-740

  Lak, Vincent Wai Ming ^a   Skoog, Ingmar ^a   Guo, Xinxin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aged; Cohort effect; Lung function; Mortality; Older people; Population study

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GROWTH; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL; SWEDEN;

AGED; COHORT EFFECT; COMORBIDITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84867801250     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs098     Document Type: Article

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