Toward a positive aging phenotype for older women: Observations from the women's health initiative

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1191-1196

  Woods, Nancy Fugate ^a   Cochrane, Barbara B ^a   Lacroix, Andrea Z ^b   Seguin, Rebecca A ^b   Zaslavsky, Oleg ^a   Liu, Jingmin ^b   Beasley, Jeannette M ^b   Brunner, Robert L ^c   Espeland, Mark A ^d   Goveas, Joseph S ^e   Lane, Dorothy S ^f   Manson, Joann E ^g   Mouton, Charles P ^h   Robinson, Jennifer G ⁱ   Tinker, Lesley F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^f STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthy life span; Phenotypes; Positive aging; Women's health

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDEPENDENT LIVING; LONGEVITY; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGEVITY; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84867534022     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: 1758535X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/gls117     Document Type: Article

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