The mortality rate as a function of accumulated deficits in a frailty index

TY - JOUR

T1 - The mortality rate as a function of accumulated deficits in a frailty index

AU - Mitnitski, Arnold B.

AU - Mogilner, Alexander J.

AU - MacKnight, Chris

AU - Rockwood, Kenneth

N1 - Funding Information: This analysis was funded by Health Canada through the National Health Research and Development Program, Grant #6603-03-1999/2640043. Chris MacKnight is supported by a New Investigator Award and Kenneth Rockwood by an Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Kenneth Rockwood is also supported by the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation as the Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the official policy of Health Canada. The authors gratefully acknowledge two anonymous referees for their comments.

PY - 2002/9

Y1 - 2002/9

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U2 - 10.1016/S0047-6374(02)00082-9

DO - 10.1016/S0047-6374(02)00082-9

M3 - Article

C2 - 12425952

AN - SCOPUS:0036756749

SN - 0047-6374

VL - 123

SP - 1457

EP - 1460

JO - Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

JF - Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

IS - 11

ER -