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Health status and 6 years survival of 552 90+ Italian sib-ships recruited within the EU Project GEHA (GEnetics of Healthy Ageing).
Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands) - 1 Apr 2014
Cevenini E, Cotichini R, Stazi M A, Toccaceli V, Palmas M G, Capri M, De Rango F, Dato S, Passarino G, Jeune B, Franceschi C
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In a scenario of increasing life expectancy worldwide, it is mandatory to identify the characteristics of a healthy aging phenotype, including survival predictors, and to disentangle those related to environment/lifestyle versus those related to familiarity/genetics. To this aim we comprehensively characterised a cohort of 1,160 Italian subjects of 90 years and over (90+, mean age 93 years; age range...
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