Daily walking and life expectancy of elderly people in the Iowa 65+ Rural Health Study

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 1, Issue APR, 2013, Pages

  Samawi, Hani M ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cox regression; Daily walk; Hazard ratio; Health conditions; Kaplan Meier estimate; Life expectancy; Proportional hazards model; Survival function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923660559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2013.00011     Document Type: Article

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