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The State of Health in Older Adults in Japan: Trends in Disability, Chronic Medical Conditions and Mortality

Both life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in Japan have been increasing and are among the highest in the world, but the gap between them has also been widening. To examine the recent trends in old age disability, chronic medical conditions and mortality in Japan, we retrospectively analyzed t...

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Autores principales: Ishii, Shinya, Ogawa, Sumito, Akishita, Masahiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4592221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26431468
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139639