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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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Autor principal: Frank, Steven A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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