Elder Health Review

Publications

Terry DF, Sebastiani P, Andersen SL, Perls TT. Disentangling the Roles of Disability and Morbidity in Survival to Exceptional Old Age. Archives of Internal Medicine.  2008;168(3):277-283.

Terry DF, and Asea, A. 2008. Serum heat shock protein 70 level as a biomarker of exceptional longevity. In Heat Shock Proteins and the Brain: Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Neuroprotection. Vol. 3. A. Asea, and I. R. Brown, eds. Springer Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (in press).

Perls, TT, Terry, DF. Exceptional Longevity. In Global Health and Global Aging. Robinson, M., Novelli, W., Pearson, C., and Norris, L. (Eds.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint, October 2007.

Sebastiani P, Zhao Z, Abad-Grau M, Riva A, Hartley S, Sedgewick A, Doria A, Montano M, Melista E, Terry DF, Perls TT, Steinberg MH, Baldwin CT.  A hierarchical and modular approach to the discovery of robust associations in genome-wide association studies from pooled DNA samples. BMC Genetics 2008 9:6

Perls TT, Kohler I, Andersen A, Schoenhofen E, Pennington J, Young R, Terry DF, Elo I. Survival of Parents and Siblings of Supercentenarians. J Geron. 2007. 2007 Sep;62(9):1028-34.

 Terry DF, Evans JC, Pencina MJ, Murabito JM, Vasan RS, Wolf PA, Kelly-Hayes M, Levy D, D’Agostino RB, Benjamin EJ. Characteristics of Framingham Offspring Participants with Long-Lived Parents. Archives of Internal Medicine. March 12, 2007.

Terry, DF, Wyszynski DF, Nolan VG, Atzmon G, Schoenhofen EA, Pennington JY, Andersen SL, Wilcox MA, Farrer LA, Barzilai N, Baldwin C, Asea A. Serum Heat Shock Protein 70 Level as a Biomarker of Exceptional Longevity. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 2006 Nov;127(11):862-8.

Terry DF, Pencina MJ, Vasan RS, Murabito JM, Wolf PA, Kelly-Hayes M, Levy D, D’Agostino RB, Benjamin EJ. Cardiovascular Risk Factors Predictive for Survival and Morbidity-Free Survival in the Oldest Old Framingham Heart Study Participants. Journal of American Geriatrics Society. 2005 Nov;53(11):1944-50.

Perls T, Terry DF. "Centenarians." In: Principals and Practice of Geriatric Medicine Fourth Edition, edited by John Pathy, John Morley and Alan Sinclair. London, UK: Wiley 2005.
 

Terry DF, Wilcox M, McCormick M, Pennington J, Schoenhofen E, Andersen S, Perls T. Lower all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality in centenarian offspring. Journal of American Geriatrics Society. Dec 2004; 52 (12):2074-2076.

Terry DF, McCormick M, Andersen S, Pennington J, Schoenhofen E, Palaima E, Mambula S, Bausero M, Gor D,  Perls T, Asea A.Cardiovascular Disease Delay in Centenarian Offspring: Role of Heat Shock Proteins. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. July 2004; 1019: 502-505.

Terry DF, Wilcox MA, McCormick MA, Perls TT. Cardiovascular disease delay in centenarian offspring. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. Apr 2004;59(4):M385-389. 

Perls T, Terry D. Genetics of exceptional longevity. Exp Gerontol. Jul 2003;38(7):725-730.

Perls T, Terry D. Understanding the Determinants of Exceptional Longevity. Ann Intern Med. Sep 2 2003;139(5 Pt 2):445-449.

Terry DF, Wilcox M, McCormick M, Lawler E, Perls T.  Cardiovascular Advantages Among the Offspring of Centenarians. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. May 2003;58(5):M425-431. 

Andersen S, Terry DF, Babineau T, Malek K, Perls T. Cancer in the oldest old. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 2005; 126(2):263-7. 

Perls T, Terry DF, Silver M, Shea M, Bowen J, Joyce E, Ridge S, Fretts R, Daly M, Brewster S, Puca A, Kunkel L. "Centenarians and the Genetics of Longevity." In: Molecular Genetics of Aging, edited by Siegfried Hekimi. Berlin, Germany:  Springer-Verlag,  2000.

Terry D and Perls, T. The Personal Financial Planning Implications of Exceptional Longevity. Journal of Financial Service Professionals. Chester, PA. March, 2002.