Editor's note: Aging America is a joint AP-APME project that examines the aging of the baby boomers and the impact this so-called silver tsunami is having on society.

CHICAGO (AP) — Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Here are some bad signs: getting winded walking several blocks, smoking, and having trouble pushing a chair across the room.

That's according to a "mortality index" developed by San Francisco researchers for people older than 50.

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