Thesis
Biological Ageing: Statistical analysis of physical and biochemical biomarkers in UK Biobank
- Abstract:
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Background: Age is the strongest risk factor for most chronic diseases, yet individuals age biologically at different rates. Summarising patterns of biomarkers that contribute strongly to overall and body system-specific ageing into biological and body system (bodily) ages may aid health risk communication and disease prevention. A systematic review (undertaken within this thesis) found that biological ages indicated or predicted poorer health, but few studies conducted validation o...
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+ Parish, S
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Perera, R
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Arnold, M
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Cairns, B
- Role:
- Examiner
+ Muniz Terrera, G
- Role:
- Examiner
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
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- Deposit date:
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2021-07-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Chan, MS
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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