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How to classify the oldest old according to their health status: a study on 1160 subjects belonging to 552 90+ Italian sib-ships characterized by familial longevity recruited within the GEHA EU Project.
Mechanisms of ageing and development - 1 Jan 2000
Cevenini Elisa, Cotichini Rodolfo, Stazi Maria Antonietta, Toccaceli Virgilia, Scurti Maria, Mari Vincenzo, Berardelli Maurizio, Passarino Giuseppe, Jeune Bernard, Franceschi Claudio
Abstract excerpt
The health status of the oldest old, the fastest increasing population segment worldwide, progressively becomes more heterogeneous, and this peculiarity represents a major obstacle to their classification. We compared the effectiveness of four previously proposed criteria (Franceschi et al., 2000; Evert et al., 2003; Gondo et al., 2006; Andersen-Ranberg et al., 2001) in 1160 phenotypically fully characterized...
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