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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dowd, Jennifer Beam, Sanderson, Warren, Scherbov, Sergei
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/5792/1/file.pdf
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096289