Health and function of participants in the Long Life family study: A comparison with other cohorts

Aging

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-76

  Newman, Anne B ^a,b   Glynn, Nancy W ^a   Taylor, Christopher A ^a   Sebastiani, Paola ^c   Perls, Thomas T ^d   Mayeux, Richard ^e   Christensen, Kaare ^f   Zmuda, Joseph M ^a   Barral, Sandra ^e   Lee, Joseph H ^e   Simonsick, Eleanor M ^g   Walston, Jeremy D ^h   Yashin, Anatoli I ⁱ   Hadley, Evan ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging phenotypes; Exceptional survival; Family studies; Genetics; Genome wide association study; Healthy aging; Longevity; Multicenter studies

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAIT; GENETICS; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79958103103     PISSN: 19454589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/aging.100242     Document Type: Article

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