Demographic Perspectives on Human Senescence

Instability and decay of the primary structure of DNA

1993 • 5,370 citations

PLEIOTROPY, NATURAL SELECTION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF SENESCENCE

1957 • 4,140 citations

Helsinki Heart Study: Primary-Prevention Trial with Gemfibrozil in Middle-Aged Men with Dyslipidemia

1987 • 3,889 citations

Physical Activity, All-Cause Mortality, and Longevity of College Alumni

1986 • 2,771 citations

The Association of Changes in Physical-Activity Level and Other Lifestyle Characteristics with Mortality among Men

1993 • 2,027 citations

Longevity, senescence and the genome

1995 • 1,390 citations

Cholesterol and mortality. 30 years of follow-up from the Framingham study

1987 • 981 citations

The evolution of ageing and longevity

1979 • 875 citations

The Fourth Stage of the Epidemiologic Transition: The Age of Delayed Degenerative Diseases

1986 • 797 citations

Introduction to Stochastic Processes in Biostatistics

1969 • 703 citations

In Search of Methuselah: Estimating the Upper Limits to Human Longevity

1990 • 623 citations

Mortality among the elderly in the Alameda County Study: behavioral and demographic risk factors.

1987 • 477 citations

Demography of Genotypes: Failure of the Limited Life-Span Paradigm in Drosophila melanogaster

1992 • 425 citations

The Compression of Morbidity: Near or Far?

1989 • 335 citations

Trading Off Longer Life for Worsening Health

1991 • 320 citations

Changes in Life Expectancy and Disability-Free Life Expectancy in the United States

1989 • 261 citations

How Change in Age-specific Mortality Affects Life Expectancy

1986 • 240 citations

Limits to Human Life Expectancy: Evidence, Prospects, and Implications

1991 • 212 citations

The aging of the Human Species

1993 • 156 citations

A description of the extreme aged population based on improved medicare enrollment data

1992 • 155 citations

Prospects for an ageing population

1985 • 135 citations

Health Practices and Disability: Some Evidence from Alameda County

1993 • 109 citations

Defects in data on old-age mortality in the United States: new procedures for calculating mortality schedules and life tables at the highest ages.

1990 • 103 citations

Alternative Projections of the U.S. population

1990 • 92 citations

Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Senescence

1993 • 87 citations

Evolutionary consequences of nonrandom damage and repair of chromatin domains

1992 • 87 citations

Passage to Methuselah: some demographic consequences of continued progress against mortality.

1986 • 81 citations

An aging world II.

1993 • 76 citations

Projecting the Older Population of the United States: Lessons from the Past and Prospects for the Future

1988 • 72 citations

On forecasting mortality.

1988 • 61 citations

Short- and Long-term Association of Serum Cholesterol with Mortality

1992 • 60 citations

Error Models for Official Mortality Forecasts

1990 • 51 citations

Low serum cholesterol, cancer and other noncardiovascular disorders

1992 • 31 citations

Pursuing longevity: delay vs elimination of degenerative diseases.

1985 • 28 citations

Estimating the strength of expert judgement: The case of US mortality forecasts

1992 • 18 citations

Reductions in mortality at advanced ages

1993 • 17 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations