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Journal of Aging Research
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 197590, 2 pages
doi:10.4061/2011/197590
Editorial

Behavioral Factors of Longevity

Peter Martin,1 Leonard W. Poon,2 and Bo Hagberg3

1Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
2Insitute of Gerontology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
3Department of Psychology, Lund University, 22220 Lund, Sweden

Received 21 November 2011; Accepted 21 November 2011

Copyright © 2011 Peter Martin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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