Physical performance and short-term mortality in very old Mexican Americans

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 481-492

  Panas, Lawrence J ^a   Siordia, Carlos ^b   Angel, Ronald J ^c   Eschbach, Karl ^a   Markides, Kyriakos S ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICAN; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MORTALITY; POSTURAL BALANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; WALKING;

EID: 84887108020     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2013.839021     Document Type: Article

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