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New light on an age-old issue.
Mechanisms of ageing and development - 1 Nov 2008
Whitson Heather E, Pieper Carl F, Cohen Harvey J
Abstract excerpt
In this issue, Varadhan and colleagues propose a methodologic framework that seeks to quantify impaired resiliency in dynamic systems underlying the frailty syndrome. We view this work, which is based on modeling stimulus-response data, as an exciting expansion of longstanding theories of age-related decline in physiologic reserve across systems. We outline ways in which this methodology might make substantial...
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