Families enriched for exceptional longevity also have increased health span: Findings from the Long Life Family Study

Families enriched for exceptional longevity also have increased health span: Findings from the Long Life Family Study

Hypothesizing that members of families enriched for longevity delay morbidity compared to population controls and approximate the health-span of centenarians, we compared the health spans of older generation subjects of the Long Life Family Study (LLFS) to controls without family history of longevit...

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Main Authors: Paola eSebastiani, Fangui eSun, Stacy Lynn Andersen, Joseph eLee, Mary Kaye Wojczynski, Jason L Sanders, Anatoliy I Yashin, Anne B Newman, Thomas T Perls
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
Longevity
survival analysis
Health-span
onset of disease
Weibull regression
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpubh.2013.00038/full

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