Health problems and associated risk factors in selected urban and rural elderly population groups of South-West Nigeria

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 90-97

  Abegunde, Kayode ^a   Owoaje, Eme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Elderly; health problems; Oyo state; risk factors; south west Nigerian communities

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL SENSATION; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLURRED VISION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; LOW BACK PAIN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MOUTH DISEASE; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NIGERIA; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; TONGUE DISEASE; TOOTH DISEASE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE STYLE; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGERIA; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VISION, LOW;

EID: 84879630327     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: 09755764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.112398     Document Type: Article

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