Are Men Aging as Oaks and Women as Reeds? A Behavioral Hypothesis to Explain the Gender Paradox of French Centenarians

Since the 1990s, several studies involving French centenarians have shown a gender paradox in old age. Even if women are more numerous in old age and live longer than men, men are in better physical and cognitive health, are higher functioning, and have superior vision. If better health should lead...

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Autores principales: Balard, Frédéric, Beluche, Isabelle, Romieu, Isabelle, Willcox, Donald Craig, Robine, Jean-Marie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3233703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22175018
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/371039

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3233703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22175018
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/371039

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