Morphometric skin characteristics dependent on chronological and biological age: The Leiden Longevity Study

Age

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1543-1552

  Waaijer, Mariette E C ^a   Gunn, David A ^b   Catt, Sharon D ^b   Van Ginkel, Michael ^b   De Craen, Anton J M ^a   Hudson, Nicole M ^b   Van Heemst, Diana ^a   Slagboom, P Eline ^a   Westendorp, Rudi G J ^a   Maier, Andrea B ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological age; Chronological age; Elastic fibres; Epidermis; Familial longevity; Skin ageing

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; HORMONE; HORMONES AND AGENTS ACTING ON THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DERMIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DUTCH; ELASTIC FIBER; EPIDERMIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGENY; SIBLING; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN STRUCTURE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; BIOPSY; COMORBIDITY; ELASTIC TISSUE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEART INFARCTION; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SKIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ELASTIC TISSUE; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NETHERLANDS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN; SKIN AGING;

EID: 84874618889     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-011-9314-5     Document Type: Article

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