Comorbidities, polypharmacy, functionality and nutritional status in Turkish community-dwelling female elderly

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 255-259

  Bahat, Gulistan ^a   Tufan, Fatih ^a   Bahat, Zumrut ^b   Tufan, Asli ^a   Aydin, Yucel ^a   Akpinar, Timur Selcuk ^a   Nadir, Sevilay ^a   Erten, Nilgun ^a   Karan, Mehmet Akif ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Developing; Elderly; Functionality; Malnutrition; Polypharmacy

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; COMMUNITY LIVING; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLYPHARMACY; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); COHORT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; TURKEY; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POLYPHARMACY; TURKEY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84904760447     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: 17208319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-014-0229-8     Document Type: Article

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