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Article: New findings from University of Rochester describe advances in public health.
- Article from:
- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- November 16, 2009
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"We determined whether a representative national probability sample of US community-dwelling older adults who reported less social support also reported poorer general health status, which is a robust predictor of prospective mortality among elders. We analyzed 2 subsamples generated via random sampling with replacement from the full analytic sample of adults aged 60 years and older in the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (n=3476)," investigators in the United States report (see also Public Health).
"We built multinomial logit models with the first analytic subsample (n=1732). Then we tested the final models on the second subsample ...