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Explaining the Role of Sex on Disability

Author(s) -

Linda A. Wray,

Caroline Blaum

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/41.4.499

Subject(s) - activities of daily living , covariate , gerontology , demography , health and retirement study , logistic regression , psychology , body mass index , medicine , physical therapy , statistics , mathematics , pathology , sociology

There is no clear consensus about how sex influences prevalent disability and through what mechanisms. We investigated whether sex had a direct independent effect on disability or whether sex had an interactive effect on the relationship between chronic diseases/conditions and disability, and whether these effects differed in middle-aged versus older adults.

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