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Gender, nutritional status and disability-free life expectancy among older people in Santiago, Chile

BACKGROUND: This study was aimed to estimate life expectancy (LE), disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and disabled life expectancy (DLE) among older adults from Santiago, Chile, and to determine the existence of differences by gender and by body mass index (BMI) categories in these indicators. M...

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Autores principales: Moreno, Ximena, Albala, Cecilia, Lera, Lydia, Leyton, Bárbara, Angel, Bárbara, Sánchez, Hugo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5874002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29590148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194074