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[ALT14] Learning From Leaders: Life-span Trends in Olympians and Supercentenarians
Revue Internationale avec comité de lecture : Journal The Journals of Gerontology: serie A, vol. ..(In Press), pp. .., 2014, (doi: 10.1093/gerona/glu130)Mots clés: Demography Longevity Life span. Demography Longevity Life span. Demography, ; Life span.; Longevity
Résumé:
Life-span trends progression has worldwide practical implications as it may affect the sustainability of modern societies. We aimed to describe the secular life-span trends of populations with a propensity to live longer-Olympians and supercentenarians-under two hypotheses: an ongoing life-span extension versus a biologic "probabilistic barrier" limiting further progression. In a study of life-span densities (total number of life durations per birth date), we analyzed 19,012 Olympians and 1,205 supercentenarians deceased between 1900 and 2013. Among most Olympians, we observed a trend toward increased life duration. This trend, however, decelerates at advanced ages leveling off with the upper values with a perennial gap between Olympians and supercentenarians during the whole observation period. Similar tendencies are observed among supercentenarians, and over the last years, a plateau attests to a stable longevity pattern among the longest-lived humans. The common trends between Olympians and supercentenarians indicate similar mortality pressures over both populations that increase with age, scenario better explained by a biologic "barrier" forecast.
Commentaires:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25143003
Equipe:
msdma
Collaboration:
IRMES
BibTeX
| @article { | |||
| ALT14, | |||
| title | = | "{Learning From Leaders: Life-span Trends in Olympians and Supercentenarians }", | |
| author | = | "J. Antero and A. Latouche and J. Toussaint ", | |
| journal | = | "The Journals of Gerontology: serie A", | |
| year | = | 2014, | |
| volume | = | .., | |
| number | = | In Press, | |
| pages | = | "..", | |
| note | = | "{http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25143003}", | |
| doi | = | " 10.1093/gerona/glu130", | |
| } | |||
