A reduction in physical function may also be driven by age-related increases in the ratio between cortisol and the anti-glucocorticoid dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS).
Its findings reflect patterns of consumer behavior that are driven by age, mobility and, in a strange twist, poverty.
As the H-index is driven by age, these associations were adjusted for age, which did not change the results.
However, in our study no clinical pattern of treatment decision making was identified in our analysis and age was the strongest factor predicting treatment receipt, suggesting that clinical decisions are being driven by age and not by clinical characteristics.
For sex, the fact that the rate ratios are close to unity implies that some of the difference in relative survival by sex is driven by age and stage case-mix, concordant with earlier work (Riaz et al, 2013).
If a population tends to mature at a particular size regardless of age, harvest selection against larger individuals is likely to increase growth rates and reduce age at maturation, whereas if maturity is driven by age regardless of size, harvest selection would retard growth rates and reduce size at maturation.
The variations we observed in the expression of the parity signature by ER status are unlikely to have been driven by age, age at first birth or years since most recent birth, because these variables had similar distributions in the ER + and ER - cases evaluated.
Evolving modular topology facilitates global network efficiency and is driven by age-related strengthening of hub edges present both within and between modules.
This study would thus support that treatment decision-making should not be driven by chronological age and that comorbid burden appears far more relevant.
