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Reduction in Allostatic Load in Older Adults Is Associated With Lower All-Cause Mortality Risk: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging

Arun S. Karlamangla, PhD, MD, Burton H. Singer, PhD and Teresa E. Seeman, PhD

From the Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California (A.S.K., T.E.S.); Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (B.H.S.).


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  		Figure 1. All-cause 7-year mortality by 0.25 increments of baseline (1988) allostatic load score. Allostatic load scores were computed from 10 physiological measurements and their squared terms using weights listed in Table 2. The bar heights are the percentage of individuals within each allostatic load score interval who died by 1995.

 




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