Frailty is associated with anxiety in community-dwelling elderly adults

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2373-2374

  Bernal López, Carolina ^a   Potvin, Olivier ^b   Avila Funes, José Alberto ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRAILTY; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SYNDROME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84871002882     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12014     Document Type: Letter

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