Associations of chronic conditions, APOE4 allele, stress factors, and health behaviors with self-rated health

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hu, Wen ^a,b   Lu, Jiehua ^c  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

APOE4; Chronic diseases; Health behaviors; Self rated health; Stress factors

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

AGED; ALLELE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TAIWAN;

EID: 84945312254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-015-0132-y     Document Type: Article

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