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| Predictors of five-year mortality in older Canadians: the Canadian study of health and aging | | Author(s) | Truls Ostbye, Runa Steenhuis, Christina Wolfson |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 47, no 10, October 1999 |
| Pages | pp 1249-1254 |
| Keywords | Death ; Living in the community ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Cognitive processes ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Based on the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA), this study aimed to determine the importance of cognitive status, sociodemographic factors, functional status, and other health-related factors as predictors of 5-year overall mortality in older Canadians. Five-year mortality ranged from 10% (women aged 65-74 living in the community) to 88.1% (men aged 85 and older living in institutions). Multivariate models showed that the odds of death within five years increased with age. This effect remained after adjustment for all other variables. Odds of death increased with institutionalisation and with increasing cognitive and physical impairment. Although vision and hearing problems and the presence of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes were all strongly related to 5-year mortality in univariate, unadjusted analyses, their contributions were minimal in the multivariate analyses. Increased body mass index (BMI) was associated with lower mortality in both univariate and multivariate analyses. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991201216 A |
| Classmark | CW: K4: KW: LHB: DA: F: C4: CA: 3J: 7T |
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