Feeling Old vs being old: Associations between self-perceived age and mortality

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 307-309

  Rippon, Isla ^a   Steptoe, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO AGING; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LETTER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; AGING; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

EID: 84922261021     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.6580     Document Type: Letter

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