The hispanic paradox and predictors of mortality in an aging biethnic cohort of Mexican Americans and European Americans: The san antonio longitudinal study of aging

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1522-1529

  Espinoza, Sara E ^a,b   Jung, Inkyung ^c   Hazuda, Helen ^a,b  

^a SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

frailty; Hispanic paradox; mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SOCIAL STATUS;

FRAILTY; HISPANIC PARADOX; MORTALITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL RATE; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84884289510     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12421     Document Type: Article

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