Associations of Walking Speed, Grip Strength, and Standing Balance With Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in a General Population of Japanese Elders

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 184.e1-184.e7

  Nofuji, Yu ^a,b   Shinkai, Shoji ^a   Taniguchi, Yu ^a   Amano, Hidenori ^a   Nishi, Mariko ^a   Murayama, Hiroshi ^a   Fujiwara, Yoshinori ^a   Suzuki, Takao ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Japan Association for Development of Community Medicine   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

All cause mortality; Cause specific mortality; Grip strength; Standing balance; Walking speed

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRIP STRENGTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDING; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING SPEED; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HAND STRENGTH; JAPAN; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRENDS; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WALKING;

EID: 84959151515     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2015.11.003     Document Type: Article

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