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.
ANSWER: a
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