@article{0377ad328a544c6d934645ef9746b0b8,
title = "A cross-national study of transitions in deficit counts in two birth cohorts: Implications for modeling ageing",
keywords = "Ageing, Frailty, Health transitions, Markov chain, Multistate stochastic model",
author = "Arnold Mitnitski and Le Bao and Ingmar Skoog and Kenneth Rockwood",
note = "Funding Information: These analyses were supported by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) operating Grants MOP62823 and MOP64169, and by the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation (DMRF). K.R. is supported by the CIHR through an investigator award and by the DMRF as Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research. The H70 data were collected as a pat of the Gerontological and Geriatric Population Studies (H70) in G{\"o}teborg, Sweden (Project leader from 1988, Professor Bertil Steen) supported by the Swedish Research Council 11267, and the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (No. 2835). Each co-author asserts no proprietary interest in the result and no financial conflict of interest. ",
year = "2007",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1016/j.exger.2006.10.001",
language = "English",
volume = "42",
pages = "241--246",
journal = "Experimental Gerontology",
issn = "0531-5565",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "3",
}