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How old are you, really? Communicating chronic risk through ‘effective age’ of your body and organs
In communicating chronic risks, there is increasing use of a metaphor that can be termed ‘effective-age’: the age of a ‘healthy’ person who has the same risk profile as the individual in question. Popular measures include ‘real-age’, ‘heart-age’, ‘lung-age’ and so on. Here we formally define this co...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974726/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27496144 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-016-0342-z |