Ukraintseva, Svetlana; Yashin, Anatoli - In: Demographic Research 9 (2003) 8, pp. 163-196
When individuals get older, the risk of many chronic diseases increases. This increase is in agreement with common theories of aging, such as mutation accumulation, wear and tear, antagonistic pleiotropy, etc. Surprisingly, however, the risk of some chronic conditions (e.g. asthma, arterial...