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An examination of black/white differences in the rate of age-related mortality increase

BACKGROUND: The rate of mortality increase with age among adults is typically used as a measure of the rate of functional decline associated with aging or senescence. While black and white populations differ in the level of mortality, mortality also rises less rapidly with age for blacks than for wh...

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Autor principal: Fenelon, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3998199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24772002
http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2013.29.17