Centenarians: The older you get, the healthier you have been

Lancet

Volumn 354, Issue 9179, 1999, Pages 652-

  Hitt, Rachel ^a   Young Xu, Yinong ^a   Silver, Margery ^a   Perls, Thomas ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0345540639     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)01987-X     Document Type: Article

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