Social Relationships and Hypertension in Late Life: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study of Older Adults • Yang Claire Yang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Courtney Boen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Physical Stature Decline and the Health Status of the Elderly Population in England • Alan Fernihough, Trinity College Dublin ; Mark E. McGovern, Harvard University

A Longitudinal Investigation of Psychosocial Mediators of Allostatic Load in a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Midlife Women: Findings from the Study of Women's Health across the Nation • Dawn Upchurch, University of California, Los Angeles

Biodemography and Genetics of Aging • Anatoliy I. Yashin, Duke University ; Deqing Wu, Duke University ; Konstantin G. Arbeev, Duke University ; Alexander Kulminski, Duke University ; Liubov Arbeeva, Duke University ; Svetlana V. Ukraintseva, Duke University