Skeletal muscle function and need for long-term care of urban elderly people in Japan (the Bunkyo Health Study): a prospective cohort study

PURPOSE: The proportion of elderly individuals (age ≥65 years) in Japan reached 27.7% in 2017, the highest in the world. A serious social problem in a super-aged society is the rise in the number of elderly people who need long-term care (LTC), which is mainly due to cerebrovascular disease, dementi...

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Autores principales: Someya, Yuki, Tamura, Yoshifumi, Kaga, Hideyoshi, Nojiri, Shuko, Shimada, Kazunori, Daida, Hiroyuki, Ishijima, Muneaki, Kaneko, Kazuo, Aoki, Shigeki, Miida, Takashi, Hirayama, Satoshi, Konishi, Seiki, Hattori, Nobutaka, Motoi, Yumiko, Naito, Hisashi, Kawamori, Ryuzo, Watada, Hirotaka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6756356/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31530621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031584

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