Diabetes mellitus and its association with central obesity and disability among older adults: A global perspective

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2015, Pages 70-77

  Tyrovolas, Stefanos ^a,b   Koyanagi, Ai ^a,b   Garin, Noe ^c,d   Olaya, Beatriz ^a,b   Ayuso Mateos, Jose Luis ^b,e   Miret, Marta ^b,e   Chatterji, Somnath ^f   Tobiasz Adamczyk, Beata ^g   Koskinen, Seppo ^h   Leonardi, Matilde ⁱ   Haro, Josep Maria ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^g JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^h NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Disability; Obesity; Older adults; Waist circumference; Waist to height ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CATARACT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; GHANA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; POLAND; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SOUTH AFRICA; SPAIN; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO; WHODAS II QUESTIONNAIRE; AGE; BODY MASS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HEIGHT RATIO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84923233683     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2015.02.010     Document Type: Article

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