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A Frailty Index Based On Deficit Accumulation Quantifies Mortality Risk in Humans and in Mice

Although many common diseases occur mostly in old age, the impact of ageing itself on disease risk and expression often goes unevaluated. To consider the impact of ageing requires some useful means of measuring variability in health in animals of the same age. In humans, this variability has been qu...

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Autores principales: Rockwood, K., Blodgett, J. M., Theou, O., Sun, M. H., Feridooni, H. A., Mitnitski, A., Rose, R. A., Godin, J., Gregson, E., Howlett, S. E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5318852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28220898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep43068