The new trends in survival improvement require a revision of traditional gerontological concepts

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 157-167

  Yashin, Anatoli I ^a,b   Begun, Alexander S ^a   Boiko, Serge I ^a   Ukraintseva, Svetlana V ^a,c   Oeppen, Jim ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodemography of aging; Mortality rate; Rectangularization; Strehler and Mildvan model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURE AND TRANSPORT MEDIA; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERONTOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; SWEDEN; THEORY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

EID: 0035217585     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(01)00154-1     Document Type: Article

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