Years of life lost due to lower extremity injury in association with dementia, and care need: a 6-year follow-up population-based study using a multi-state approach among German elderly

BACKGROUND: Dementia and care need are challenging aging populations worldwide. Lower extremity injury (LEI) in the elderly makes matters worse. Using a multi-state approach, we express the effect of LEI on dementia, care need, and mortality in terms of remaining life expectancy at age 75 (rLE) and...

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Autores principales: Zhou, Ying, Putter, Hein, Doblhammer, Gabriele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4710990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26758623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0184-7

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