Measuring the speed of aging across population subgroups

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Sanderson, Warren C ^a,b,c   Scherbov, Sergei ^b,c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; SEX RATIO; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; ETHNOLOGY; HAND STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84900561899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096289     Document Type: Article

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