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Age is a major risk factor for phenotypes characterizing human health, well-being, and survival in late life. The risks of these phenotypes expressed in forms of pathological dysregulation of physiological functions, incidence or prevalence of diseases, case fatality, or mortality also change with age. This change integrates all challenges occurring in a human organism during the life course by a given age. Accordingly, the age patterns of various age-related phenotypes are a valuable source of information about health-related processes in human organisms.
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Kulminski, A.M., Yashin, A.I., Culminskaya, I., Land, K.C., Ukraintseva, S.V. (2016). Conclusions Regarding Empirical Patterns of Aging, Health, and Longevity. In: Biodemography of Aging. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7587-8_10
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