mortality

Design of a frailty index among community living middle-aged and older people: The Rotterdam study

**Objectives:** To design a frailty index (FI) and evaluate three methods to handle missing data. Furthermore, we evaluated its construct (i.e., skewed distribution, correlation with age and sub-maximum score) and criterion validity (based on …

Development of a Healthy Aging Score in the Population-Based Rotterdam Study: Evaluating Age and Sex Differences

**Objectives:** To develop a healthy aging score (HAS), to assess age and sex differences in HAS, and to evaluate the association of the HAS with survival. **Design:** Prospective population-based cohort. **Setting:** Inhabitants of Ommoord, …

Fertile lifespan characteristics and all-cause and cause-specific mortality among postmenopausal women: the Rotterdam Study

**Objective:** To characterize the relation between established and previously unexplored characteristics of the fertile life with all-cause and cause-specific mortality. **Design:** Prospective cohort study. **Patient(s):** A total of 4,076 …