Preventive and promotive effects of habitual hot spa-bathing on the elderly in Japan

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Maeda, Toyoki ^a   Mimori, Koshi ^a   Suzuki, Sadao ^b   Horiuchi, Takahiko ^a   Makino, Naoki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY BEPPU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; BATH; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HABIT; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HEALTHY LIFESTYLE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BATHS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HABITS; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTHY LIFESTYLE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 85040530345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18488-3     Document Type: Article

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