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October 6, 2016
Dietary factors have been estimated to account for about 35% of cancer deaths in the United States, although there is considerable uncertainty about which constituents of diet contribute to this risk. Recent meta-analyses suggest an association of colorect ...
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October 6, 2016
Aging and nutrition interact: aging influences nutrient requirements, their absorption, and metabolism; and diet is a powerful risk factor for aging-associated diseases. Nutritional requirements in older adults differ from those in younger adults due to ag ...
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January 1, 2016
It is well known from epidemiological research that values of indices describing physiological states at a given age may influence human morbidity and mortality risks. Studies of the connections between aging and life span suggest that the dynamic properti ...
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January 1, 2016
The formulation of the recently developed Linear Latent Structures (LLS) analysis, its statistical properties, the algorithm for parameter estimation and its implementation, simulation studies, and application of LLS model to the National Long Term Care Su ...
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January 1, 2016
The tremendous research potential of U.S. Medicare data for evaluation of current, and forecasting of future, patterns of aging-related diseases among older U.S. adults remains largely unexplored. In this chapter, we present and discuss the results of a se ...
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January 1, 2016
Aging-related deterioration in health impacts an important economic component: the medical costs associated with disease diagnosis and treatment. Because almost all U.S. residents aged 65+ years old are covered by the Medicare system, prediction of future ...
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December 15, 2014
© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Aging and nutrition interact: aging influences nutrient requirements, their absorption and metabolism, and diet is a powerful risk factor for aging-associated diseases. Nutritional requirements in older adults diffe ...
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