Perceived age as clinically useful biomarker of ageing: Cohort study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 339, Issue 7735, 2009, Pages 1433-

  Christensen, Kaare ^a   Thinggaard, Mikael ^a   McGue, Matt ^a,b   Rexbye, Helle ^a   Hjelmborg, Jacob V B ^a   Aviv, Abraham ^c   Gunn, David ^d   Van Der Ouderaa, Frans ^d,f   Vaupel, James W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

^d UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SURVIVAL; TELOMERE; TWIN DISCORDANCE; TWINS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION; DENMARK; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

EID: 73149099651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b5262     Document Type: Article

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