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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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Autor principal: Spiegelhalter, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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