Journal ArticleJMIR Aging · September 24, 2024
BACKGROUND: The severity of Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) is rarely documented in structured data fields in electronic health records (EHRs). Although this information is important for clinical monitoring and decision-making, it is often u ...
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Journal ArticleAlzheimers Dement · March 2024
BACKGROUND: We examined the sequences of clinical care leading to diagnoses of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) using electronic health records from a large academic medical center. METHODS: We included patients aged 65+ with their first AD ...
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Journal ArticleStigma and Health · January 1, 2024
Racial differences in high blood pressure (BP) have been well-documented. Prior studies suggest that exposure to discrimination is a potentially important factor contributing to elevated levels of BP among U.S. Black adults. However, evidence has been mixe ...
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Journal ArticleArch Gerontol Geriatr · December 2023
INTRODUCTION: The aim of the study was to assess factors associated with the perceived risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) and how the perceived risk of ADRD was related to cognitive function. METHODS: We conducted a retrosp ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Sci Med · October 2023
The American South has been characterized as a Stroke Belt due to high cardiovascular mortality. We examine whether mortality rates and race differences in rates reflect birthplace exposure to Jim Crow-era inequalities associated with the Plantation South. ...
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Journal ArticleJ Aging Soc Policy · September 3, 2023
Massive rural-to-urban migration in China has a significant impact on informal caregiving arrangements among Chinese older adults. To stimulate research on the intersection of migration and caregiving, we conducted an inventory of longitudinal aging survey ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Sci Med · March 2023
Hearing loss is a prevalent chronic stressor among older adults and is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes. The life course principle of linked lives highlights that an individual's stressors can impact the health and well-being of others; how ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Open · November 24, 2022
OBJECTIVE: To examine factors contributing to racial differences in 30-day readmission in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). DESIGN: Patients were enrolled from 1 January 2015 to 31 August 2017 and data were collected from electronic health record ...
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Journal ArticleKidney360 · June 30, 2022
BACKGROUND: Cardiac arrest occurs frequently in outpatient dialysis clinics, and immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) provision improves patient outcomes. However, Black patients in dialysis clinics receive CPR from clinic staff less often compare ...
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Journal ArticleJ Affect Disord · May 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: The World Alzheimer Report showed that 46.8 million people suffered from dementia in 2015. This study examined how the duration and quality of sleep are associated with cognition among older adults in China. METHOD: Data were drawn from waves 2 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Heart Assoc · April 5, 2022
Background The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a rapid implementation of telemedicine into clinical practice. This study examined whether early outpatient follow-up via telemedicine is as effective as in-person visits for reducing 30-day readmissions in pati ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Popul Stud · 2022
There has been increasing attention to the role of hearing loss as a potentially modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. However, more nationally-representative studies are needed to understand the co-occurring changes in hear ...
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Journal ArticleJMIR Aging · September 24, 2024
BACKGROUND: The severity of Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) is rarely documented in structured data fields in electronic health records (EHRs). Although this information is important for clinical monitoring and decision-making, it is often u ...
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Journal ArticleAlzheimers Dement · March 2024
BACKGROUND: We examined the sequences of clinical care leading to diagnoses of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) using electronic health records from a large academic medical center. METHODS: We included patients aged 65+ with their first AD ...
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Journal ArticleStigma and Health · January 1, 2024
Racial differences in high blood pressure (BP) have been well-documented. Prior studies suggest that exposure to discrimination is a potentially important factor contributing to elevated levels of BP among U.S. Black adults. However, evidence has been mixe ...
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Journal ArticleArch Gerontol Geriatr · December 2023
INTRODUCTION: The aim of the study was to assess factors associated with the perceived risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) and how the perceived risk of ADRD was related to cognitive function. METHODS: We conducted a retrosp ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Sci Med · October 2023
The American South has been characterized as a Stroke Belt due to high cardiovascular mortality. We examine whether mortality rates and race differences in rates reflect birthplace exposure to Jim Crow-era inequalities associated with the Plantation South. ...
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Journal ArticleJ Aging Soc Policy · September 3, 2023
Massive rural-to-urban migration in China has a significant impact on informal caregiving arrangements among Chinese older adults. To stimulate research on the intersection of migration and caregiving, we conducted an inventory of longitudinal aging survey ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Sci Med · March 2023
Hearing loss is a prevalent chronic stressor among older adults and is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes. The life course principle of linked lives highlights that an individual's stressors can impact the health and well-being of others; how ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Open · November 24, 2022
OBJECTIVE: To examine factors contributing to racial differences in 30-day readmission in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). DESIGN: Patients were enrolled from 1 January 2015 to 31 August 2017 and data were collected from electronic health record ...
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Journal ArticleKidney360 · June 30, 2022
BACKGROUND: Cardiac arrest occurs frequently in outpatient dialysis clinics, and immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) provision improves patient outcomes. However, Black patients in dialysis clinics receive CPR from clinic staff less often compare ...
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Journal ArticleJ Affect Disord · May 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: The World Alzheimer Report showed that 46.8 million people suffered from dementia in 2015. This study examined how the duration and quality of sleep are associated with cognition among older adults in China. METHOD: Data were drawn from waves 2 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Heart Assoc · April 5, 2022
Background The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a rapid implementation of telemedicine into clinical practice. This study examined whether early outpatient follow-up via telemedicine is as effective as in-person visits for reducing 30-day readmissions in pati ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Popul Stud · 2022
There has been increasing attention to the role of hearing loss as a potentially modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. However, more nationally-representative studies are needed to understand the co-occurring changes in hear ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosom Med · November 2021
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the association between cumulative exposure to chronic stressors and the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) in US older adults. METHODS: Nationally representative prospective cohort data of adults 45 years an ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Heart Assoc · September 7, 2021
Background Following the implementation of the HeartRescue project, with interventions in the community, emergency medical services, and hospitals to improve care and outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in North Carolina, improved bystander ...
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Journal ArticleChina CDC Wkly · July 9, 2021
The world's population continues to grow, albeit at a slower pace. The decelerating growth is mainly attributable to fertility declines in a growing number of countries. However, there are substantial variations in the future trends of populations across r ...
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This encyclopedia brings together established and emerging research findings in all relevant disciplines of gerontology and population aging. ...
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Journal ArticleCirc Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes · January 2021
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of hospitalization in the United States, and patients with CVD are at a high risk of readmission after discharge. We examined whether patients' perceived risk of readmission at discharge was ass ...
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Journal ArticleResuscitation · November 2020
BACKGROUND: Cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death among patients receiving hemodialysis. Despite guidelines recommending CPR training and AED presence in dialysis clinics, rates of CPR and AED use by dialysis staff are suboptimal. Given that racial ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Public Health · September 29, 2020
BACKGROUND: Urban-rural disparity in mortality at older ages is well documented in China. However, surprisingly few studies have systemically investigated factors that contribute to such disparity. This study examined the extent to which individual-level s ...
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Journal ArticleResuscitation · July 2020
AIM: We examined overall and temporal differences in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) care and outcomes by urban versus non-urban setting separately for North Carolina (NC) and Washington State (WA) during HeartRescue initiatives and associations of u ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Geriatr · April 9, 2020
BACKGROUND: Adequate access to healthcare is associated with lower risks of mortality at older ages. However, it is largely unknown how many more years of life can be attributed to having adequate access to healthcare compared with having inadequate access ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · February 2020
OBJECTIVES: To investigate racial differences in elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) and the potential factors contributing to these differences in US older men and women. DESIGN: Nationally representative cohort study. SETTING: Health and Retirement Study, ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Soc Nephrol · March 2019
BACKGROUND: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the leading cause of death among patients on hemodialysis, occurs frequently within outpatient dialysis centers. Practice guidelines recommend resuscitation training for all dialysis clinic staff and on-site defi ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Med · February 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: China has transitioned from being one of the fastest-growing populations to among the most rapidly aging countries worldwide. In particular, the population of oldest-old individuals, those aged 80+, is projected to quadruple by 2050. The oldest ...
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Journal ArticleRes Aging · January 2019
OBJECTIVES: To assess the association between rural and urban residential mobility and cognitive function among middle-aged and older adults in China. METHOD: We used data from the World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health that incl ...
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Journal ArticleArch Gerontol Geriatr · 2019
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to examine gender differences in the association between migration and cognitive function among adults in China and India. METHODS: Data from the World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) study were ...
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Journal ArticleArch Gerontol Geriatr · 2019
The association between financial status and mortality in older adults is well documented. However, it is unclear whether the association may vary by objective and subjective indicators of financial status. To examine this issue, we used the latest four wa ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Health Serv Res · December 29, 2018
BACKGROUND: Whether the association between access to medical care and health outcomes differs by age and gender among older adults in China is unclear. We aimed to investigate the associations between self-reported inadequate access to care and multiple h ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Heart Assoc · November 6, 2018
Background Firefighter first responders dispatched in parallel with emergency medical services ( EMS ) personnel for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests ( OHCA ) can provide early defibrillation to improve survival. We examined whether survival following first ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Heart Assoc · September 18, 2018
Background The Institute of Medicine has called for actions to understand and target sex-related differences in care and outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients. We assessed changes in bystander and first-responder interventions and outcomes f ...
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Journal ArticleAm Heart J · February 2018
BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that access to routine medical care is associated with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic diseases. However, studies have not examined whether patient-reported difficulties in access to care are associated wi ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroepidemiology · 2018
BACKGROUND: The place of residence has been linked to cognitive function among adults in developed countries. This study examined how urban and rural residence was associated with cognitive function among adults in India. METHODS: The World Health Organiza ...
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Journal ArticleGlob Health Res Policy · 2018
BACKGROUND: Migration is a fundamental demographic process that has been observed globally. It is suggested that migration is an issue of global health importance that can have an immediate and lasting impact on an individual's health and well-being. There ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Med Sci · December 2017
BACKGROUND: Recent studies have drawn attention to nonclinical factors to better understand disparities in the development, treatment and prognosis of patients with cardiovascular disease. However, there has been limited research describing the nonclinical ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Heart Assoc · November 16, 2017
BACKGROUND: Prior studies have documented racial and ethnic disparities in hospitalization among patients with heart failure (HF). However, racial/ethnic differences in trajectories of hospitalization following the diagnosis of HF have not been well charac ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Cardiol · November 1, 2017
IMPORTANCE: Little is known about the influence of comprehensive public health initiatives according to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) location, particularly at home, where resuscitation efforts and outcomes have historically been poor. OBJECTIVE: T ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Geriatr · July 19, 2017
BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that inadequate access to healthcare is associated with lower levels of health and well-being in older adults. Studies have also shown significant urban-rural differences in access to healthcare in developing countries such a ...
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Journal ArticleJMIR Res Protoc · June 15, 2017
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of hospitalization in older adults and high readmission rates have attracted considerable attention as actionable targets to promote efficiency in care and to reduce costs. Despite a plethora of ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Public Health · June 9, 2017
BACKGROUND: Self-perception of uselessness is associated with increased mortality risk in older adults. However, it is unknown whether and to what extent changes in perceived uselessness are associated with mortality risk. METHODS: Using four waves of nati ...
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Journal ArticleCirc Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes · June 2017
BACKGROUND: Practice guidelines recommend regional systems of care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. However, whether emergency medical services should bypass nonpercutaneous cardiac intervention (non-PCI) facilities and transport out-of-hospital cardiac ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Geriatr · May 15, 2017
BACKGROUND: Residential status has been linked to numerous determinants of health and well-being. However, the influence of residential status on cognitive decline remains unclear. The purpose of this research was to assess the changes of cognitive functio ...
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Journal ArticleArch Gerontol Geriatr · 2017
BACKGROUND: Negative self-perceptions of aging among older adults have been associated with higher mortality in developed countries. However, it is unclear whether an association exists in developing countries where living to older age is more selective. D ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Heart Assoc · December 14, 2016
BACKGROUND: Stroke is among the leading causes of disability and death in the United States, and nearly 7 million adults are currently alive after experiencing a stroke. Although the risks associated with having a stroke are well established, we know surpr ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Cardiol · December 1, 2016
BACKGROUND: The effect of socioeconomic stressors on the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is currently open to debate. Using time-series analysis, our study aimed to evaluate the relationship between unemployment rate and hospital admission for ac ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Sci Med · December 2016
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and nearly one million Americans will have a heart attack this year. Although the risks associated with a heart attack are well established, we know surprisingly little about how marital fact ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Forces · September 1, 2016
Stroke is among the leading causes of disability and death in the United States, and racial differences are greater for stroke than for all other major chronic diseases. Considering the equally sizeable racial disparities in marital life and associated ris ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Public Health · September 2016
OBJECTIVES: To examine the leadership attributes and collaborative connections of local actors from the health sector and those outside the health sector in a major place-based health initiative. METHODS: We used survey data from 340 individuals in 4 Healt ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · March 2016
OBJECTIVES: Studies show that caregiving can have negative consequences on the psychological and physical health of its providers. However, few studies have examined the immediate and long-term impact of caregiving on health and none have considered these ...
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Journal ArticlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2016
INTRODUCTION: While therapeutic hypothermia has been the standard of care for patients who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), recent trials have led to an advisory statement recommending a focus on targeted in-hospital temperature management and ...
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Journal ArticleResuscitation · November 2015
AIM: Defibrillation by bystanders and first responders has been associated with increased survival, but limited data are available from non-metropolitan areas. We examined time from 911-call to defibrillation (according to who defibrillated patients) and s ...
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Journal ArticleJ Prev Med Public Health · November 2015
OBJECTIVES: Previous studies have shown that overweight (including obesity) has increased significantly in Korea in recent decades. However, it remains unclear whether this change has been uniform among all Koreans and to what extent socioeconomic and beha ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA · July 21, 2015
IMPORTANCE: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is associated with low survival, but early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation can improve outcomes if more widely adopted. OBJECTIVE: To examine temporal changes in bystander and first-responde ...
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Journal ArticleCirc Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes · May 2015
BACKGROUND: Divorce is a major life stressor that can have economic, emotional, and physical health consequences. However, the cumulative association between divorce and risks for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is unknown. This study investigated the as ...
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Journal ArticleDiabetes Res Clin Pract · March 2015
AIMS: Studies have shown that diabetes mellitus disproportionately afflicts persons of low socioeconomic status and that the burden of disease is greatest among the disadvantaged. However, our understanding of educational differences in the control of diab ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cross Cult Gerontol · March 2015
This article reviews the current literature on disability trends in aging populations and proposes a framework for studying disability trends built upon existing models of disablement. In addition to considering disablement and its associated factors, our ...
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Journal ArticleResuscitation · November 2014
OBJECTIVE: A 10-fold regional variation in survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has been reported in the United States, which partly relates to variability in bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) rates. In order for resources to be ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Intern Med · June 3, 2014
BACKGROUND: The comparative effectiveness of treatments for atrial fibrillation (AF) is uncertain. PURPOSE: To evaluate the comparative effectiveness of rate- and rhythm-control therapies. DATA SOURCES: English-language studies in PubMed, EMBASE, and the C ...
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Journal ArticleArch Intern Med · December 10, 2012
BACKGROUND: Employment instability is a major source of strain affecting an increasing number of adults in the United States. Little is known about the cumulative effect of multiple job losses and unemployment on the risks for acute myocardial infarction ( ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Sci Med · November 2012
Studies have shown that institutionalized older adults have worse psychological health than their community-residing counterparts. However, much less is known about this association in developing countries such as China with a rapidly aging population and ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Public Health · August 2012
OBJECTIVES: We investigated associations among age, race, socioeconomic status (SES), and mortality in older persons and whether low SES contributes to the Black-White mortality crossover (when elevated age-specific mortality rates invert). METHODS: We use ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2012
BACKGROUND: Studies show that the U.S. foreign-born population has lower mortality than the native-born population before age 65. Until recently, the lack of data prohibited reliable comparisons of U.S. mortality by nativity at older ages. This study provi ...
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Journal ArticleJ Health Soc Behav · December 2011
Despite recent increases in life course research on mental illness, important questions remain about the social patterning of, and explanations for, depression trajectories among women in later life. The authors investigate competing theoretical frameworks ...
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Journal ArticleResearch on Aging · January 1, 2011
Countless studies show that socioeconomic status (SES) is strongly related to morbidity and mortality. However, few studies consider the substantial variability in health within socioeconomic strata. In this article, the authors examine the incompatibility ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Epidemiol · September 1, 2009
More than a century of empirical evidence links marital status to mortality. However, the hazards of dying associated with long-term marital trajectories and contributing risk factors are largely unknown. The authors used 1992-2006 prospective data from a ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Sci Med · June 2009
Numerous studies document improvements in health status and health expectancies among older adults over time. However, most evidence is from developed nations and gender differences in health trends are often inconsistent. It remains unknown whether change ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ · April 9, 2009
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between frailty and type of death among the world's largest oldest-old population in China. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: 2002 and 2005 waves of the Chinese longitudinal healthy longevity survey carried ou ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · March 2009
OBJECTIVES: This study investigates the factors associated with frailty and the association of frailty with mortality in a national sample of adults aged 65-109 in China. METHODS: Using the 2002 wave of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Forces · 2009
Previous research into the social distribution of early life depression has yielded inconsistent results regarding subgroup differences in depression levels and in the etiology of these differences. Using latent curve models and data from the National Long ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Sci Res · December 2008
This study tests the cumulative disadvantage hypothesis by examining the age-varying relationships between education, health risks, and disease onset and survival duration. Results based on 20 years of longitudinal data suggest that education is related to ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Public Health · July 2008
OBJECTIVES: We investigated the characteristics of the oldest old in China and examined whether the factors associated with longevity varied with advanced age. METHODS: Drawing from the largest nationally representative longitudinal sample of oldest-old ad ...
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Journal ArticleHealth Policy · January 2008
OBJECTIVE: This study examines the factors associated with the enrollment, satisfaction, and sustainability of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) program in six study areas in rural Beijing. METHODS: Data come from a sample of 890 persons aged 15-88 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Family Issues · May 1, 2007
Recent studies linking marital status and health increasingly focus on marital trajectories to examine the relationship from a life course perspective. However, research has been slow to bridge the theoretical concept of a marital trajectory with its measu ...
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Journal ArticleJ Health Soc Behav · March 2007
Some studies suggest that the relationship between education and health strengthens with age (cumulative disadvantage hypothesis), while other studies find that it weakens (age-as-leveler hypothesis). This research addresses this inconsistency by different ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Sci Med · February 2007
Existing research on the institutionalized population of older adults is primarily limited to Western countries. This study is the first to use nationally representative data to examine differences in the institutionalized and community-residing population ...
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Journal ArticleDemography · February 2006
This study investigates the relationships among religious attendance, mortality, and the black-white mortality crossover. We build on prior research by examining the link between attendance and mortality while testing whether religious involvement captures ...
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