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Relative contribution of various chronic diseases and multi-morbidity to potential disability among Dutch elderly

BACKGROUND: The amount of time spent living with disease greatly influences elderly people’s wellbeing, disability and healthcare costs, but differs by disease, age and sex. METHODS: We assessed how various single and combined diseases differentially affect life years spent living with disease in Du...

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Autores principales: Botes, Riaan, Vermeulen, Karin M., Correia, Janine, Buskens, Erik, Janssen, Fanny
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29334922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2820-0