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Key to living 100 years: compress disabilities |
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by William Atkins
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
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Although these centenarians had many differences among them, they did have some things in common.
The key points of living a long life were found to be: (1) few were obese (in the case of men, they were almost always lean), (2) very few smoked, (3) most were able to handle stress better than average people, (4) most have no significant changes in thinking abilities, (5) women had a history of having children after the age of 35 years, (6) all were aging slowing and had avoided or delayed getting age-related diseases, and (7) their family members (especially parents and grandparents) also lived to very old ages.
Their findings (“Disentangling the Roles of Disability and Morbidity in Survival to Exceptional Old Age”) appear in the February 11, 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
The authors are Dellara F. Terry, Paola Sebastiani, Stacy L. Andersen, and Thomas T. Perls,
The researchers are also conducting a New England Supercentenarian Study, which is studying people age 110 years and older.
They state that only about sixty or so people are supercentenarians in the United States, and there are only about 200 to 300 of these extremely long living people in the world.
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