New age patterns of survival improvement in Sweden: Do they characterize changes in individual aging?

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 637-647

  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

Adaptation; Gompertz curve; Mortality; Strehler and Mildvan model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; SWEDEN;

AGING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; SWEDEN;

EID: 0037204536     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-6374(01)00410-9     Document Type: Article

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