Lower all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality in centenarians' offspring

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2074-2076

  Terry, Dellara F ^a   Wilcox, Marsha A ^b   McCormick, Maegan A ^a   Pennington, JaeMi Y ^a   Schoenhofen, Emily A ^a   Andersen, Stacy L ^a   Perls, Thomas T ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cause of death; Centenarian; Longevity; Offspring

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONGEVITY; PEDIGREE; PREVALENCE; PROGENY; SURVIVAL; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; RISK; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PEDIGREE; RISK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16644378795     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52561.x     Document Type: Article

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