Lifestyle-Related Risk Factors and Risk of Future Nursing Home Admission | Zendy

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Lifestyle-Related Risk Factors and Risk of Future Nursing Home Admission

Author(s) -

Elmira Valiyeva,

Louise B. Russell,

Jane Miller,

Monika M. Safford

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.166.9.985

Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , diabetes mellitus , relative risk , blood pressure , confidence interval , nursing homes , longitudinal study , risk factor , gerontology , disease , demography , nursing , pathology , endocrinology , sociology

While risks of disease, hospitalization, and death attributable to lifestyle-related factors such as smoking, inactivity, and obesity have been well studied, their associations with nursing home admission are less well known. These risk factors are usually established by middle age, but nothing is known about how they relate to long-term risk of nursing home admission in this age group.

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