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Aging in the USA: similarities and disparities across time and space
We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904–1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement Study and construct a frailty index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relative to the number of potential deficits. We find that, on average, Americans d...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7458930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32868867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71269-3 |