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2012 Association of American Physicians George M. Kober Lecture
Translating from the rivers of Babylon to the coronary bloodstream
Barry S. Coller
Barry S. Coller
Published November 1, 2012
Citation Information: J Clin Invest. 2012;122(11):4293-4299. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI66867.
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2012 Association of American Physicians George M. Kober Lecture
Translating from the rivers of Babylon to the coronary bloodstream

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Life expectancy.

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Life expectancy.
(A) Best-practice life expectancy (that is, the best li...
(A) Best-practice life expectancy (that is, the best life expectancy reported by any country) and life expectancy for women in selected countries, 1840–2007. Reproduced with permission from the Lancet (2). (B) Life expectancy at birth for Homo sapiens from 200,000 BCE to the present, separated into prescientific (200,000 BCE until 1840) and scientific (1840 until the present) eras.

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