Physiological Dysregulation Predicted Poorer Health and Lower Survival in a Survey of the Older Population Noreen Goldman 1 Cassio M Turra 2 Dana A. Glei 3 Yu-Hsuan Lin 4 Maxine Weinstein 5 March 20, 2006 1 Office of Population Research, Princeton University 2 Office of Population Research and Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University and Cedeplar, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. 3 Department of Demography, University of California at Berkeley 4 Bureau of Health Promotion, Taichung, Taiwan 5 Center for Population and Health, Georgetown University ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work has been supported by the Demography and Epidemiology Unit of the Behavioral and Social Research Program of the National Institute of Aging, under grant numbers R01AG16790 and R01AG16661, and by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under grant number 5P30HD32030. We would also like to thank Germán Rodríguez for his statistical advice. 1