Is socioeconomic status a predictor of mortality in nonagenarians? The vitality 90+ study

Age and Ageing

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 123-129

  Enroth, Linda ^a   Raitanen, Jani ^a,b   Hervonen, Antti ^a   Nosraty, Lily ^a   Jylhä, Marja ^a  

^a Jyvaskyla University   (Finland)

^b UKK INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Education; Functioning; Inequality; Occupational class; Older people

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE SPECIFIC MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SKILLED MANUAL WORKER; SOCIAL STATUS; UNSKILLED MANUAL WORKER; VERY ELDERLY; WORKER; AGE; AGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FINLAND; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OCCUPATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84929616002     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/AGEING/AFU092     Document Type: Article

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