Sex Differences in the Limit to Deficit Accumulation in Late Middle-Aged and Older Chinese People: Results From the Beijing Longitudinal Study of Aging

BACKGROUND. On average, as people age, they accumulate more health deficits and have an increased risk of death. The deficit accumulation–based frailty index (FI) can quantify health and its outcomes in aging. Previous studies have suggested that women show higher FI values than men and that the hig...

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Autores principales: Shi, Jing, Yang, Zhan, Song, Xiaowei, Yu, Pulin, Fang, Xianghua, Tang, Zhe, Peng, Dantao, Mitnitski, Arnold, Rockwood, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24127426
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glt143

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24127426
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glt143

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