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Preventive health care in elderly people needs rethinking
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Preventive health care in elderly people needs rethinking
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Dee Mangin, Kieran Sweeney, and Iona Heath argue that, rather than prolonging life, preventive treatments in elderly people simply change the cause of death—the manner of our dying
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Cardiovascular outcomes, all cause mortality, and cancer outcomes in the PROSPER study
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Prevention in elderly people: Later life's complexity needs a scalpel rather than an axe.BMJ. 2007 Aug 25;335(7616):361-2. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39311.447407.3A. BMJ. 2007. PMID: 17717339 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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