Postponement of postmenopausal mortality acceleration in low-mortality populations

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1100, Issue , 2007, Pages 46-59

  Milne, Eugene M G ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Riverside House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demography; Menopause; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MORTALITY; POPULATION GENETICS; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEX DIFFERENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AGE; AGING; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34249658280     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1395.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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