When comparing our results for all independent elderly to our results for those who responded to questions about income in the mail survey, we found that the hazard ratios were lower for those that responded to the survey for both mortality and loss of healthy life, and, for women that responded to the survey, hazard ratios did not reach statistical significance.
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Social Determinants of Active Aging: Differences in Mortality and the Loss of Healthy Life between Different Income Levels among Older Japanese in the AGES Cohort Study.
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