Browsing by Subject "Denmark"
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Sex differences in health and mortality in Moscow and Denmark.
(Eur J Epidemiol, 2014-04)In high income countries females outlive men, although they generally report worse health, the so-called male-female health-survival paradox. Russia has one of the world's largest sex difference in life expectancy with a ... -
Survival Prognosis in Very Old Adults.
(J Am Geriatr Soc, 2016-01)OBJECTIVES: To determine whether simple functional indicators are predictors of survival prognosis in very old adults. DESIGN: In-person survey conducted over a 3-month period in 1998; assessment of survival over a 15-year ... -
The Danish Twin Registry: linking surveys, national registers, and biological information.
(Twin Res Hum Genet, 2013-02)Over the last 60 years, the resources and the research in the Danish Twin Registry (DTR) have periodically been summarized. Here, we give a short overview of the DTR and a more comprehensive description of new developments ... -
The normative and the personal life: individual differences in life scripts and life story events among USA and Danish undergraduates.
(Memory, 2009-01)Life scripts are culturally shared expectations about the order and timing of life events in a prototypical life course. American and Danish undergraduates produced life story events and life scripts by listing the seven ... -
The Wesselhoefts: A medical dynasty from the age of Goethe to the era of nuclear medicine.
(Journal of medical biography, 2017-11)For six generations, members of the Wesselhoeft family have practiced medicine in Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Canada and/or the USA. In the early decades of the 19th century, two Wesselhoeft brothers left Europe to eventually ... -
Third-Millennium Heart, for soprano and ten instruments, and "Constructing Postmodern Objects: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's New Simplicity"
(2022)Third-Millennium Heart is a fifty-minute composition for soprano and ten instruments. The work takes its name from the text’s source material, Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s book of poetry, translated into English by Katrine Øgaard ... -
Trade-offs in the effects of the apolipoprotein E polymorphism on risks of diseases of the heart, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders: insights on mechanisms from the Long Life Family Study.
(Rejuvenation Res, 2015-04)The lack of evolutionary established mechanisms linking genes to age-related traits makes the problem of genetic susceptibility to health span inherently complex. One complicating factor is genetic trade-off. Here we focused ...
