Search Results - "Koopman, Jacob Je"
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Longevity is impacted by growth hormone action during early postnatal period
Published in eLife (04-07-2017)“…Life-long lack of growth hormone (GH) action can produce remarkable extension of longevity in mice. Here we report that GH treatment limited to a few weeks…”
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Turning Points in the Conception and Regulation of Physician-Assisted Dying in the Netherlands
Published in The American journal of medicine (01-08-2016)“…The US and Canada stand at a turning point, which manifests as spreading support and legalization of physician-assisted dying. The Netherlands, with its…”
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Calculating the Rate of Senescence From Mortality Data: An Analysis of Data From the ERA-EDTA Registry
Published in The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (01-04-2016)“…The rate of senescence can be inferred from the acceleration by which mortality rates increase over age. Such a senescence rate is generally estimated from…”
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Scarcity of atrial fibrillation in a traditional African population: a community-based study
Published in BMC cardiovascular disorders (18-07-2014)“…In western societies, atrial fibrillation is an increasingly common finding among the elderly. Established risk factors of atrial fibrillation include obesity,…”
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Disentangling rectangularization and life span extension with the moving rectangle method
Published in Annals of epidemiology (01-03-2016)“…Abstract Purpose The moving rectangle method is used to disentangle the contributions of rectangularization and life span extension to the increase in life…”
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