Does residing in urban or rural areas affect the incidence of polypharmacy among older adults in western China?

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 328-333

  Yang, Ming ^a   Lu, Jing ^a   Hao, Qiukui ^a   Luo, Li ^a   Dong, Birong ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Polypharmacy; Residency; Rural area

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHINA; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG USE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; FALLING; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENDER; HEARING DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; INCONTINENCE; INSOMNIA; INSURANCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; NEOPLASM; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POLYPHARMACY; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VISUAL DISORDER; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYPHARMACY; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84923055308     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2014.11.004     Document Type: Article

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