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.

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Negative selective survival refers to a situation where only certain individuals with particular characteristics survive until the end of a study. In this case, those individuals with the lowest blood pressures were the only ones who survived, indicating negative selective survival.

If the Surviving Participants in the Last Wave of Testing