Self-Assessed Health Status, Walking Speed and Mortality in Older Mexican-Americans | Zendy

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Self-Assessed Health Status, Walking Speed and Mortality in Older Mexican-Americans

Author(s) -

Matteo Cesari,

Marco Pahor,

Emanuele Marzetti,

Valentina Zamboni,

Giuseppe Colloca,

Matteo Tosato,

Kushang V. Patel,

Jennifer Jean Tovar,

Kyriakos S. Markides

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

gerontology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.397

H-Index - 94

eISSN - 1423-0003

pISSN - 0304-324X

DOI - 10.1159/000174824

Subject(s) - medicine , confounding , proportional hazards model , preferred walking speed , hazard ratio , demography , receiver operating characteristic , gerontology , physical therapy , confidence interval , sociology

Self-assessed health status (SAHS) and physical performance measures (in particular, walking speed) are strong predictors of health-related events. Nevertheless, the possible interaction between them in predicting major outcomes has not been clearly explored.

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