Cohort Profile Update: The Amirkola Health and Ageing Project (AHAP)

• Autori principali: Ali Bijani (Autore), Reza Ghadimi (Autore), Ebrahim Mikaniki (Autore), Farzan Kheirkhah (Autore), Seyyed Ali Mozaffarpur (Autore), Mina Motallebnejad (Autore), Haleh Esmaili (Autore), Fatemeh Majidi (Autore), Robert G Cumming (Autore), Seyed-Reza Hosseini (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: Babol University of Medical Sciences, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Soggetti: article
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The original cohort study of AHAP started in 2011 on 1616 elderly residents of Amirkola, northern part of Iran near the Caspian Sea. The main goal of this study was to comprehensively evaluate the health of the elderly in the region with the emphasis on chronic diseases such as osteoporosis. The fir...