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Article: Research reports on aging from University of Hawaii, Medical Department provide new insights.(Clinical report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- May 13, 2009
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According to recent research from the United States, "Place of death is an indicator of health service utilization at the end of life and differs according to cause of death. Asian Americans may have a higher percentage of hospital deaths than Caucasian Americans, yet reasons for this finding are unclear."
"This study examined distribution of place of death and the associations between place and cause of death in elderly Japanese-American men in a longitudinal cohort: the Honolulu Heart Program and Honolulu-Asia Aging Study. Data collected between 1991 and 1999 on 1,352 men aged 73 to 99 at death were analyzed for associations between cause-of-death ...