How Does Subjective Age Get "Under the Skin"? The Association between Biomarkers and Feeling Older or Younger Than One's Age? The Health and Retirement Study

Innovation in Aging

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2019, Pages

  Thyagarajan, Bharat ^a   Shippee, Nathan ^b   Parsons, Helen ^b   Vivek, Sithara ^a   Crimmins, Eileen ^c   Faul, Jessica ^d   Shippee, Tetyana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Age discrepancy score; Biological domains; Physiological aging

Indexed keywords

EID: 85091855196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23995300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igz035     Document Type: Article

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