Open AccessDoes current smoking predict future frailty? The English longitudinal study of ageing
Author(s) -
Gotaro Kojima,
Steve Iliffe,
Stephen Jivraj,
Ann Liljas,
Kate Walters
Publication year - 2017
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/afx136
Subject(s) - medicine , socioeconomic status , confounding , demography , odds ratio , confidence interval , logistic regression , gerontology , loneliness , environmental health , population , psychiatry , sociology
smoking is the single most preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. The evidence on independent associations between smoking in later life and incident frailty is scarce.
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