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A dried blood spot-based method to measure levels of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase 5b (TRACP-5b), a marker of bone resorption

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Accelerometer-measured physical activity among older adults in urban India: Results of a study on global AGEing and adult health substudy.

scientific article published on 14 November 2015

Age and Socioeconomic Gradients of Health of Indian Adults: An Assessment of Self-Reported and Biological Measures of Health

scientific article

Ageing across the Tasman Sea: the demographics and health of older adults in Australia and New Zealand

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Ageing alongside and outside EU borders

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

scientific article

Ambient Air Pollution Exposure Association with Anaemia Prevalence and Haemoglobin Levels in Chinese Older Adults

scientific article published on 05 May 2020

Ambient PM2.5 and Stroke: Effect Modifiers and Population Attributable Risk in Six Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

scientific article published on 6 April 2017

An investigation of factors associated with the health and well-being of HIV-infected or HIV-affected older people in rural South Africa

scientific article published on 2 April 2012

An observational study of the discrediting of COX-2 NSAIDs in Australia: Vioxx or class effect?

scientific article published on 24 November 2011

Are retired people higher in experiential wellbeing than working older adults? A time use approach

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Arthritis diagnosis and symptoms are positively associated with specific physical job exposures in lower- and middle-income countries: cross-sectional results from the World Health Organization's Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE).

scientific article published on 8 June 2018

Association between anemia and frailty in 13,175 community-dwelling adults aged 50 years and older in China

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Associations Between Physical Function and Subjective Well-Being in Older Adults From Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Results From the Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE)

scientific article published on 19 November 2018

Associations between sleep duration, sleep quality, and cognitive test performance among older adults from six middle income countries: results from the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE).

scientific article published on 15 June 2014

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and associated risk factors among older adults in six low-and middle-income countries: results from SAGE Wave 1.

scientific article

Caregiving responsibilities and burden among older people by HIV status and other determinants in Uganda

scientific article published on 11 February 2013

Child survival.

scientific article

China and India's challenges: the other end of the spectrum

scientific article published in The Lancet

Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases in 6 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Findings From Wave 1 of the World Health Organization's Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE).

scientific article published on March 2017

Co-occurrence of depression with chronic diseases among the older population living in low- and middle-income countries: A compound health challenge

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Common risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases among older adults in china, ghana, mexico, india, russia and south africa: The study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) wave 1

scientific article

Data Resource Profile: Cross-national and cross-study sociodemographic and health-related harmonized domains from SAGE plus CHARLS, ELSA, HRS, LASI and SHARE (SAGE+ Wave 2)

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Data Resource Profile: Cross-national and cross-study sociodemographic and health-related harmonized domains from SAGE plus ELSA, HRS and SHARE (SAGE+, Wave 1).

scientific article

Data resource profile: The world health organization study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE).

scientific article (publication date: December 2012)

Decreased chronic morbidity but elevated HIV associated cytokine levels in HIV-infected older adults receiving HIV treatment: benefit of enhanced access to care?

scientific article

Depression and chronic diseases: Co-occurrence and communality of risk factors

scientific article published on 08 August 2018

Development and validation of an ELISA for a biomarker of thyroid dysfunction, thyroid peroxidase autoantibodies (TPO-Ab), in dried blood spots

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Diabetes in South African older adults: prevalence and impact on quality of life and functional disability - as assessed using SAGE Wave 1 data.

scientific article

Disability, quality of life and all-cause mortality in older Mexican adults: association with multimorbidity and frailty

scientific article published on 04 October 2018

Diverse alcohol drinking patterns in 20 African countries.

scientific article published on 6 May 2009

Diversity in the Factors Associated with ADL-Related Disability among Older People in Six Middle-Income Countries: A Cross-Country Comparison.

scientific article published on 14 April 2019

Does BMI generated by self-reported height and weight measure up in older adults from middle-income countries? Results from the study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE).

scientific article published on 26 October 2015

Does poor sleep impair cognition during aging? Longitudinal associations between changes in sleep duration and cognitive performance among older Mexican adults

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Edentulism and quality of life among older Ghanaian adults

scientific article published on 9 April 2015

Effect of Conjugated Equine Estrogens on Oxidative Metabolism in Middle-aged and Elderly Postmenopausal Women

scientific article published in November 2006

Enzyme-Linked Immunoassay-Based Quantitative Measurement of Apolipoprotein B (ApoB) in Dried Blood Spots, a Biomarker of Cardiovascular Disease Risk

scientific article published in January 2017

Evaluating minimally invasive sample collection methods for telomere length measurement

scientific article published on 26 September 2017

Exposure to Air Pollution and Tobacco Smoking and Their Combined Effects on Depression in Six Low- and Middle-Income Countries

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Factors associated with cognitive function in older adults in Mexico

scientific article published on 30 March 2016

Food insecurity partially mediates associations between social disadvantage and body composition among older adults in india: Results from the study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE).

scientific article published on 5 July 2017

Fruit and vegetable intake and body mass index in a large sample of middle-aged Australian men and women

scientific article published on 17 June 2014

Functional Measures of Sarcopenia: Prevalence, and Associations with Functional Disability in 10,892 Adults Aged 65 Years and Over from Six Lower- and Middle-Income Countries

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

Greater chronic morbidity is associated with greater fatigue in six countries: A case of evolutionary mismatch?

scientific article published on 11 April 2022

HIV serostatus, inflammatory biomarkers and the frailty phenotype among older people in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

scientific article published on 05 September 2020

Health and functional status among older people with HIV/AIDS in Uganda

scientific article

Health inequalities among older men and women in Africa and Asia: evidence from eight Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites in the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE Study

scientific article

Health, wellbeing, and disability among older people infected or affected by HIV in Uganda and South Africa

scientific article published on 23 January 2013

Household characteristics for older adults and study background from SAGE Ghana Wave 1

scientific article published on 11 June 2013

Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Cognitive Test Performance: Testing a Modified Index of Life's Simple 7 Among Older Chinese Adults

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Impact of informal caregiving on older adults' physical and mental health in low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional, secondary analysis based on the WHO's Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE).

scientific article

Inflammation and central adiposity as mediators of depression and uncontrolled diabetes in the study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)

scientific article published on 28 March 2020

Longitudinal associations of multimorbidity, disability and out-of-pocket health expenditures in households with older adults in Mexico: The study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Motoric cognitive risk syndrome: multicountry prevalence and dementia risk

scientific article

Multi-country evaluation of affective experience: validation of an abbreviated version of the day reconstruction method in seven countries

scientific article

Multidimensional profiles of health status: an application of the grade of membership model to the world health survey

scientific article

Multimorbidity: health care that counts "past one" for 1·2 billion older adults

scientific article published in June 2015

On depression in an older adult population of rural India

scientific article published in January 2014

PREDICTORS OF SUICIDE IDEATION AMONG OLDER GHANAIAN WOMEN: RESULTS FROM THE STUDY ON GLOBAL AGEING AND ADULT HEALTH

scientific article published on 8 November 2019

Patterns of frailty in older adults: comparing results from higher and lower income countries using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE)

scientific article published in 2013

Perceived Income Adequacy and Well-being Among Older Adults in Six Low- and Middle-Income Countries

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

Physical function and activity among older adults in Jodhpur, India.

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Prediction of 24-hour sodium excretion from spot urine samples in South African adults: a comparison of four equations

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Predictors of hypertension awareness, treatment and control in South Africa: results from the WHO-SAGE population survey (Wave 2)

article published in 2018

Predictors of public and private healthcare utilization and associated health system responsiveness among older adults in Ghana

scientific article

Prevalence and geographic distribution of edentulism among older Ghanaians

scientific article published on 6 October 2014

Prevalence of HIV and chronic comorbidities among older adults

scientific article published on July 2012

Prevalence of angina and co-morbid conditions among older adults in six low- and middle-income countries: Evidence from SAGE Wave 1

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Prevalence of loss of all teeth (Edentulism) and associated factors in older adults in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa

scholarly article

Prevalence of major chronic conditions among older Chinese adults: the Study on Global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) wave 1.

scientific article

Prevalence of overweight and obesity in older Mexican adults and its association with physical activity and related factors: An analysis of the study on global ageing and adult health.

scientific article published on 23 October 2014

Prevalence, risk factors and disability associated with fall-related injury in older adults in low- and middle-incomecountries: results from the WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)

scientific article published on 23 June 2015

Prevalence, socio-demographic and environmental determinants of asthma in 4621 Ghanaian adults: Evidence from Wave 2 of the World Health Organization's study on global AGEing and adult health

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Quality of life and social engagement of alcohol abstainers and users among older adults in South Africa

scientific article

Re: Equity matters

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

Risk factors and disability associated with low back pain in older adults in low- and middle-income countries. Results from the WHO study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)

scientific article published on 4 June 2015

Roundtable Discussion: Data on Ageing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations

Self-reported cataracts in older adults in Ghana: Sociodemographic and health related factors

scientific article

Sleep duration, sleep quality, and obesity risk among older adults from six middle-income countries: findings from the study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE).

scientific article published on 18 August 2014

Social determinants of health and frailty are associated with all-cause mortality in older adults

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Social determinants of self-reported health in women and men: understanding the role of gender in population health

scientific article

Social determinants of sex differences in disability among older adults: a multi-country decomposition analysis using the World Health Survey

scientific article published on 8 September 2012

Social engagement and survival in people aged 50 years and over living with HIV and without HIV in Uganda: a prospective cohort study

journal article from 'African Journal of AIDS Research' published in 2018

Social epidemiology of hypertension stages

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

Social-Economic Status and Cognitive Performance among Chinese Aged 50 Years and Older

scientific article

Socio-demographic patterns of disability among older adult populations of low-income and middle-income countries: results from World Health Survey

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

Sociodemographic and socioeconomic patterns of chronic non-communicable disease among the older adult population in Ghana

scientific article published on 15 April 2014

Socioeconomic inequalities in frailty among older adults in six low- and middle-income countries: Results from the WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Survival of people aged 50 years and older by HIV and HIV treatment status: findings from three waves of the SAGE-Wellbeing of Older People Study (SAGE-WOPS) in Uganda

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

The health of aging populations in China and India

scientific article published on July 2008

The impact of multimorbidity on adult physical and mental health in low- and middle-income countries: what does the study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE) reveal?

scientific article published on 3 August 2015

The quality of life of Palestinians living in chronic conflict: assessment and determinants

scientific article published on 25 April 2008

The role of unhealthy lifestyles in the incidence and persistence of depression: a longitudinal general population study in four emerging countries.

scientific article published on 20 March 2017

To legislate or not to legislate? A comparison of the UK and South African approaches to the development and implementation of salt reduction programs

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Tobacco use in older adults in Ghana: Sociodemographic characteristics, health risks and subjective wellbeing

scientific article

Universal health coverage in emerging economies: Findings on health care utilization by older adults in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, the Russian Federation, and South Africa

scientific article

Validation of a measure of subjective well-being: an abbreviated version of the day reconstruction method

scientific article published on 27 August 2012

Validation of an Optimized ELISA for Quantitative Assessment of Epstein-Barr Virus Antibodies from Dried Blood Spots

scientific article published on January 2016

Validation of an enzyme-linked immunoassay assay for osteocalcin, a marker of bone formation, in dried blood spots

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

Variation in the prevalence of depression and patterns of association, sociodemographic and lifestyle factors in community-dwelling older adults in six low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Variations in disability and quality of life with age and sex between eight lower income and middle-income countries: data from the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

WHO values health directly

scientific article published in September 2009

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