Predictors of 10-year mortality in a population of community-dwelling Brazilian elderly: the Bambuí cohort study of aging Determinantes da mortalidade em 10 anos de idosos Brasileiros residentes na comunidade: estudo de coorte de idosos de Bambuí

• Ngā kaituhi matua: Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa (Author), Sergio Viana Peixoto (Author), Divane L. Matos (Author), Josélia O. A. Firmo (Author), Elizabeth Uchôa (Author)
• Hōputu: Pukapuka
• I whakaputaina: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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We used data on 1,399 participants aged 60 and over from the Bambuí Cohort Study of Aging to examine predictors of mortality in a socioeconomically disadvantaged population. From 1997 to 2007, 599 participants died and 6.2% were lost to follow-up, leading to 12,415 person-years (pyrs) of observatio...