HEALTH AND DISEASE STATUS IN THE BLSA MEN--DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASES

在过去的一年里，我们扩大了对 BLSA男性的健康-疾病关系。目标是了解 改变老年人的健康状况，以及疾病如何相互作用 影响健康到目前为止，我们一直专注于 出现特定的诊断，而不考虑的严重程度， disorder.对于未来，我们必须完善这些定义，以便提高严重性 考虑了这将导致一个更完整的多维 健康的功能定义。目前的项目包括（1）分析 与年龄有关的疾病分布;（2）分析 按年龄列出的总白色血细胞计数（WBC）升高对 疾病的年龄分布。在不同的年龄， WBC具有不同的诊断意义。

In the past year, we have expanded studies on the clinical evaluation of health-disease relationships in the BLSA men. The goal is to understand the changing health status of an aging individual, and how disease interacts with normal aging to affect health. Until now, we have focused on the appearance of specific diagnoses without regard to the severity of the disorder. For the future, we must refine these definitions so that severity is considered. This will result in a more complete multidimensional functional definition of health. Current projects include (1) analysis of the distribution of disease in relation to age, and (2) analysis of the implications of elevated total white blood counts (WBC) by age on the distribution of diseases by age. At different ages a chronic elevation of WBC has different diagnostic implications.