Maintaining physiological state for exceptional survival: What is the normal level of blood glucose and does it change with age?

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 611-618

  Yashin, Anatoli I ^a   Ukraintseva, Svetlana V ^a   Arbeev, Konstantin G ^a   Akushevich, Igor ^a   Arbeeva, Liubov S ^a   Kulminski, Alexander M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Allostasis; Longitudinal data; Mortality risk; Physiological norm; Stress resistance

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

AGED; AGING; ALLOSTASIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENESCENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRESS; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69949088072     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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