TY - JOUR AU - Spiegelhalter, David PY - 2016 DA - 2016/08/05 TI - How old are you, really? Communicating chronic risk through ‘effective age’ of your body and organs JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 104 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - In communicating chronic risks, there is increasing use of a metaphor that can be termed ‘effective-age’: the age of a ‘healthy’ person who has the same risk profile as the individual in question. Popular measures include ‘real-age’, ‘heart-age’, ‘lung-age’ and so on. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-016-0342-z DO - 10.1186/s12911-016-0342-z ID - Spiegelhalter2016 ER -