Tea consumption and depressive symptoms in older people in rural China

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1943-1947

  Feng, Lei ^a,b   Yan, Zhongrui ^c   Sun, Binglun ^d   Cai, Chuanzhu ^d   Jiang, Hui ^d   Kua, Ee Heok ^a,b   Ng, Tze Pin ^a,b   Qiu, Chengxuan ^e,f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^c Jining First People's Hospital   (China)

^d Xing Long Zhuang Coal Mine Hospital Yankuang Group   (China)

^e JINING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

aging; cerebrovascular disease; China; depressive symptoms; population based study; tea consumption

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHINA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRINKING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; TEA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHINA; DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS; POPULATION-BASED STUDY; TEA CONSUMPTION;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL HEALTH; TEA;

EID: 84887606167     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12496     Document Type: Article

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