Do Performance-based Health Measures Reflect Differences in Frailty Among Immigrants Age 50+ in Europe?

BACKGROUND: Life course influences, including country of residence and country of birth, are associated with frailty index scores. We investigated these associations using performance-based health measures. METHODS: Among 33,745 participants age 50+ (mean age 64.8 ± 10.1; 55% women) in the Survey of...

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Autores principales: Brothers, Thomas D., Theou, Olga, Rockwood, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Canadian Geriatrics Society 2014
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4164677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25232369
http://dx.doi.org/10.5770/cgj.17.114

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4164677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25232369
http://dx.doi.org/10.5770/cgj.17.114

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