Racial Differences in Cause-Specific Mortality Between Community-Dwelling Older Black and White Adults

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 1980-1986

  Marron, Megan M ^a   Ives, Diane G ^a   Boudreau, Robert M ^a   Harris, Tamara B ^b   Newman, Anne B ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; cause specific mortality; racial differences

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RISK; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PENNSYLVANIA; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; TENNESSEE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; INDEPENDENT LIVING; LUNG DISEASE; NEOPLASM; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEMENTIA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; KIDNEY DISEASES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PENNSYLVANIA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TENNESSEE;

EID: 85053378833     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15534     Document Type: Article

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