A Sustainable Medicine: Lessons from the Old Order Amish
โ Scribed by Jennifer Girod
- Book ID
- 110318436
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 59 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-3645
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Objective: Body image measures were assessed among the Old Order Amish, a Protestant religious community living separate from Western industrialized society. Method: One hundred six Old Order Amish men (n = 50) and women (n = 56), aged 14-67 years, were studied by two measures of body image: (1) bod
Although a familial contribution to human longevity is recognized, the nature of this contribution is largely unknown. We have examined the familial contribution to life span in the Old Order Amish (OOA) population of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Analyses were conducted on 1,655 individuals, repr
## Abstract Knowledge of the extent and distribution of linkage disequilibrium (LD) is critical to the design and interpretation of gene mapping studies. Because the demographic history of each population varies and is often not accurately known, it is necessary to empirically evaluate LD on a popu