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The Accumulation of Deficits with Age and Possible Invariants of Aging

This paper extends a method of apprising health status to a broad range of ages from adolescence to old age. The “frailty index” is based on the accumulation of deficits (symptoms, signs, disease classifications) as analyzed in the National Population Health Survey, a representative Canadian populat...

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Autores principales: Mitnitski, Arnold B., Mogilner, Alexander J., MacKnight, Chris, Rockwood, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6009575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12806172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2002.861