Co-occurrence of cardiometabolic diseases and frailty in older Chinese adults in the Beijing longitudinal study of ageing

Age and Ageing

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 346-351

  Tang, Zhe ^a   Wang, Chunxiu ^a   Song, Xiaowei ^b   Shi, Jing ^c   Mitnitski, Arnold ^b   Fang, Xianghua ^a   Yu, Pulin ^c   Rockwood, Kenneth ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cardiometabolic disorders; Frailty; Frailty index; Mortality; Older people

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINESE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRAILTY; FRAILTY INDEX; GERIATRIC CARE; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHINA; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877015351     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/aft004     Document Type: Article

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