The prevalence and social patterning of chronic diseases among older people in a population undergoing health transition. A 10/66 Group cross-sectional population-based survey in the Dominican Republic

BACKGROUND: Very little of the increased attention towards chronic diseases in countries with low and middle incomes has been directed towards older people, who contribute 72% of all deaths, and 14% of all Disability Adjusted Life Years linked to this group of conditions in those regions. We aimed t...

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Autores principales: Acosta, Daisy, Rottbeck, Ruth, Rodríguez, Juana G, González, Loida M, Almánzar, Mary R, Minaya, Susana N, Ortiz, Maria del C, Ferri, Cleusa P, Prince, Martin J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2953638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20553582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-344

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