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AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Sep 29, 2005
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The Contribution of Self-Rated Health and Depressive Symptoms to Disability Severity as a Predictor of 10-Year Mortality in European Elderly Men

Carolien L. van den Brink, MSc, Marja Tijhuis, PhD, Geertrudis A.M. van den Bos, PhD, Simona Giampaoli, MD, Aulikki Nissinen, MD and Daan Kromhout, PhD

Carolien L. van den Brink, Marja Tijhuis, and Daan Kromhout are with the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands. Carolien L. van den Brink and Geertrudis A.M. van den Bos are with the Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Simona Giampaoli is with the National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy. Aulikki Nissinen is with the National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland. Daan Kromhout is with the Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, The Netherlands.



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  		FIGURE 1—— Mortality risk for six different combinations of disability severity and self-rated healtha

Note. a Hazard ratio on z-axis, with men with no disability who felt healthy as reference group, adjusted for age, country, and chronic diseases

 


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  		FIGURE 2—— Mortality risk for nine different combinations of disability severity and depressive symptomsa

Note. aHazard ratio on z-axis, with men with no disability who were in the lowest tertile of depressive symptoms as reference group, adjusted for age, country, and chronic diseases

 




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