Predicting adult health and mortality from adolescent facial characteristics in yearbook photographs

Demography

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-41

  Reither, Eric N ^a   Hauser, Robert M ^b   Swallen, Karen C ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BOOKS, ILLUSTRATED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OVERWEIGHT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; STUDENTS; WISCONSIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65449147031     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0037     Document Type: Article

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