BACKGROUND Sarcopenia is a syndrome characterized by progressive and generalized loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength. It imposes significant costs on health care systems. Socioeconomic status is also the root cause of healthy challenges among the elderly. Therefore, investigating the association between sarcopenia and socioeconomic status is very important to improve healthy ageing of the...

Study objective—To analyse to what extent diVerences in income, using two distinct measures—as distribution across quintiles and poverty—explain social inequalities in self rated health, for men and women, in Sweden and Britain. Design—Series of cross sectional surveys, the Swedish Survey of Living Conditions (ULF) and the British General Household Survey (GHS), during the period 1992–95. Parti...

It is widely recognized that fixed income exotics should be priced by means of a stochastic volatility model. Callable constant maturity swaps (CMS) are a particularly interesting case due to the sensitivity of swap rates to implied swaption volatilities for very deep out of the money strikes. In this paper, we introduce a stochastic volatility term structure model based on a continuous time la...