Measuring the Speed of Aging across Population Subgroups
People in different subgroups age at different rates. Surveys containing biomarkers can be used to assess these subgroup differences. We illustrate this using hand-grip strength to produce an easily interpretable, physical-based measure that allows us to compare characteristic-based ages across educ...
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Format: | Others |
Language: | en |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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Online Access: | http://epub.wu.ac.at/5792/1/file.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096289 |