Mortality according to a prior assessment of biological age

Current Aging Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 193-199

  Bulpitt, Christopher J ^a   Antikainen, Riitta L ^a,b   Markowe, Hugh L J ^c   Shipley, Martin J ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Oulu City Hospital   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological age; Blood pressure; Mortality; Smoking; Systolic blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HAIR DISCOLORATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE ARCH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AGE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; HAIR COLOR; HEALTH SURVEY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ALOPECIA; ARCUS SENILIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONOBIOLOGY PHENOMENA; HAIR COLOR; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SKIN AGING; SMOKING;

EID: 77649212635     PISSN: 18746098     EISSN: 18746128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874609810902030193     Document Type: Article

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