An objective metric of individual health and aging for population surveys

• Main Authors: Qing Li (Author), Véronique Legault (Author), Vincent-Daniel Girard (Author), Luigi Ferrucci (Author), Linda P. Fried (Author), Alan A. Cohen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background We have previously developed and validated a biomarker-based metric of overall health status using Mahalanobis distance (DM) to measure how far from the norm of a reference population (RP) an individual's biomarker profile is. DM is not particularly sensitive to the choice o...