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The Contribution of Diseases to the Male-Female Disability-Survival Paradox in the Very Old: Results from the Newcastle 85+ Study

BACKGROUND: Explanations for the male-female disability-survival paradox - that woman live longer than men but with more disability - include sex differences in diseases and their impact on disability and death. Less is known about the paradox in the very old. We examine sex differences in the prese...

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Main Authors: Kingston, Andrew, Davies, Karen, Collerton, Joanna, Robinson, Louise, Duncan, Rachel, Bond, John, Kirkwood, Thomas B. L., Jagger, Carol
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Public Library of Science 2014
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917849/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24516578
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088016
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