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Frailty, fitness and late-life mortality in relation to chronological and biological age
BACKGROUND: People age at remarkably different rates, but how to estimate trajectories of senescence is controversial. METHODS: In a secondary analysis of a representative cohort of Canadians aged 65 and over (n = 2914) we estimated a frailty index based on the proportion of 20 deficits observed in...
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BioMed Central
2002
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11897015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-2-1 |