Longevity and gray hair, baldness, facial wrinkles, and arcus senilis in 13,000 men and women: The Copenhagen City Heart Study

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1998, Pages

  Schnohr, Peter ^a,b   Nyboe, Jørgen ^a   Lange, Peter ^a   Jensen, Gorm ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; FACE DISORDER; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE ARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032421624     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/53A.5.M347     Document Type: Article

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