Open AccessAssessing Risk Factors for Mortality in Elderly White and African American People: Implications of Alternative Analyses
Author(s) -
Maragatha Kuchibhatla,
Gerda G. Fillenbaum
Publication year - 2002
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/42.6.826
Subject(s) - demography , logistic regression , national death index , proportional hazards model , gerontology , epidemiology , medicine , regression analysis , white (mutation) , hazard ratio , confidence interval , statistics , biology , gene , mathematics , sociology , biochemistry
The aim of this study was to ascertain whether the determinants of death differ as a function of type of analysis in a representative sample of older African American and White people with comparable mortality rates.
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