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Assessing biological aging: the origin of deficit accumulation

The health of individuals is highly heterogeneous, as is the rate at which they age. To account for such heterogeneity, we have suggested that an individual’s health status can be represented by the number of health deficits (broadly defined by biological and clinical characteristics) that they accu...

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Autores principales: Mitnitski, Arnold, Song, Xiaowei, Rockwood, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23860844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10522-013-9446-3