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A multistage theory of age-specific acceleration in human mortality
BACKGROUND: Humans die at an increasing rate until late in life, when mortality rates level off. The causes of the late-life mortality plateau have been debated extensively over the past few years. Here, I examine mortality patterns separately for each of the leading causes of death. The different c...
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BioMed Central
2004
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC471577/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15242520 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-2-16 |