Blame the parents? The association between parental longevity and successful ageing [PDF]
Research has suggested that children of long-lived parents might age more successfully than children of short-lived parents. The aim of this study is to contribute further to the understanding of the association between parental longevity and offspring’s
Edlira Gjonça, Paola Zaninotto
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Association of anemia with all-cause mortality in Chinese centenarians: a prospective cohort study
The Journal of Nutrition, Health and AgingObjectives: This study aimed to examine the relationship between anemia and all-cause mortality in Chinese centenarians. Design: Prospective cohort study.
Wangping Jia +10 more
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Genetics, lifestyles, evironment and longevity: a look in a complex phenomenon [PDF]
, 2017 In the last decades, the worldwide progressive ageing of population has had as a principal consequence to focus attention of researchers on the study of different variables that can help people to age well (1-6).
Petretto, DONATELLA RITA, Pili, R.
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A Life-Cycle Overlapping-Generations Model of the Small Open Economy [PDF]
In this paper we construct an overlapping generations model for the small open economy incorporating a realistic description of the mortality process. With agedependent mortality, the typical life-cycle pattern of consumption and saving results from the ...
Heijdra, Ben J., Romp, Ward E.
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Life extension attitudes and the wish to become a centenarian [PDF]
, 2013 Mestrado em GerontologiaIntrodução: Com o avanço galopante da biologia e o aumento contínuo da esperança média de vida torna-se imperativo analisar as atitudes das pessoas em relação à extensão da vida humana e como estas se relacionam com as atitudes
Garrido, Ana Sofia Martins Ferreira Canedo
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A case-only approach for assessing gene-sex interaction in human longevity [PDF]
As one aspect of the complex feature of longevity, gene-sex interaction plays an important role in influencing human life span. With advances in molecular genetics, more studies aimed at assessing gene-sex interaction are expected.
Anatoli I. Yashin +7 more
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Effects of physical disability and widowhood on the survival of centenarians: a 7-year follow-up of CHCCS centenarians. [PDF]
Front AgingHan S, Zhao D, Wu J, Shen M, Hua F.
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Emergency trauma admissions in the oldest-old: short- and long-term mortality and the role of frailty in a Turkish national cohort of centenarians. [PDF]
Eur J Trauma Emerg SurgGüner M +7 more
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