Article
The biodemography of variation in human frailty.
Demography - 1 May 1990
Weiss K M
Abstract excerpt
A population is composed of individuals who are heterogeneous in their susceptibility to death and disease. This heterogeneity is reflected in the age-specific incidence or mortality (hazard) function. This variation has typically been hidden--that is, not measured directly--and has generally bee...
Topics
- Disease Susceptibility
- Environmental Exposure
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Humans
- Incidence
- Models, Genetic
- Neoplasms
- Proportional Hazards Models
- Risk Factors
- Survival Rate