Blood type B might imply longevity

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1563-1565

  Shimizu, Kenichiro ^a,b   Hirose, Nobuyoshi ^b   Ebihara, Yoshinori ^b   Arai, Yasumichi ^b   Hamamatsu, Michiyo ^b   Nakazawa, Susumu ^b   Masui, Yukie ^c   Inagaki, Hiroki ^c   Gondo, Yasuyuki ^c   Fujimori, Junko ^d   Kanno, Yoshiko ^d   Konishi, Kanoko ^d   Kitagawa, Koji ^e  

^a Health Care Center   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e GUNMA PAZ UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood group; Centenarian; Longevity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS;

PUFFINUS AURICULARIS;

EID: 6944229789     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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