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Health literacy and mortality among elderly persons.

August 8, 2007

Baker DW, Wolf MS, Feinglass J, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(14):1503-9.

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This prospective cohort study found increased mortality among elderly persons with poor health literacy, even after adjusting for confounding factors. Poor health literacy has previously been linked to inability to understand prescription drug labels.

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