Low serum vitamin D is not associated with an increase in mortality in oldest old subjects: The octabaix three-year follow-up study

Gerontology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 10-15

  Formiga, Francesc ^a   Ferrer, Assumpta ^b   Megido, Maria Jesus ^c   Boix, Lucia ^a   Contra, Ana ^a   Pujol, Ramon ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b Primary Healthcare Centre 'El Plà' CAP I Sant Feliu de Llobregat   (Spain)

^c L'Hospitalet de Llobregat   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geriatric assessment; Mortality; Oldest old; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D;

ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; AGED; SENESCENCE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84891034928     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: 14230003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000351024     Document Type: Article

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