What can we learn from centenarians ?

Facts, Research and Intervention in Geriatrics

Volumn 2000, Issue , 2000, Pages 9-24

  Jeune, Bernard ^a   Andersen Ranberg, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NONE

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