Open AccessTime trends of incidence of age-associated diseases in the US elderly population: medicare-based analysis
Author(s) -
Igor Akushevich,
Julia Kravchenko,
Svetlana Ukraintseva,
Konstantin G. Arbeev,
A.I. Yashin
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/aft032
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , population ageing , gerontology , population , demography , environmental health , physics , optics , sociology
time trends of age-adjusted incidence rates of 19 ageing-related diseases were evaluated for 1992-2005 period with the National Long Term Care Survey and the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End RESULTS Registry data both linked to Medicare data (NLTCS-Medicare and SEER-Medicare, respectively).
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