Health status and 6 years survival of 552 90+ Italian sib-ships recruited within the EU Project GEHA (GEnetics of Healthy Ageing)

Age

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 949-966

  Cevenini, E ^a   Cotichini, R ^b,c   Stazi, M A ^b   Toccaceli, V ^b   Palmas, M G ^a   Capri, M ^a   De Rango, F ^d   Dato, S ^d   Passarino, G ^d   Jeune, B ^e   Franceschi, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Familial longevity; Health status; Lifestyle; Mortality predictors; Nonagenarians

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GRIP STRENGTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ITALY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; SIBLING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL RATE; URBAN POPULATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; ITALY; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84898863416     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-013-9604-1     Document Type: Article

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