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Age Differences in Allostatic Load: An Index of Frailty

  • Crimmins E
  • Johnston M
  • Hayward M
  • et al.
Springer-Verlag, (2006), 111-126
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4032-6_8
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Abstract

The authors are interested in how biological or physiological frailty changes with age. This cross sectional study of persons at all adult ages clarifies how mortality selection affects the characteristics of the surviving old and old-old population.

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Crimmins, E. M., Johnston, M. L., Hayward, M., & Seeman, T. (2006). Age Differences in Allostatic Load: An Index of Frailty. In Longer Life and Healthy Aging (pp. 111–126). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4032-6_8

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