If the Surviving Participants in the Last Wave of Testing

question 71

Multiple Choice

If the surviving participants in the last wave of testing in a longitudinal study on health and aging are those who initially had the lowest blood pressures, then we have a case of

• A) negative selective survival.
• B) positive selective survival.
• C) elective selective survival.
• D) equally selective survival.

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