Potential gains in health-adjusted life expectancy from reducing four main non-communicable diseases among Chinese elderly
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Health-adjusted life expectancy.
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Geriatrics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1471-2318
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-019-1032-3