Research has shown that the life expectancy of people is likely to be prolonged. But is this simply means that people who live more poorly ...
Research has shown that the life expectancy of people is likely to be prolonged. But is this simply means that people who live more poorly in health? Optimistic results of a new study showing published geriatrics in the Journal of the American Chemical Society that these additional years can be healthy. In a study of nearly 3,000 people, the onset of the disease decades later in life came from centenarians to their younger counterparts.
"Most people struggle with an increasing burden of disease and disability as they age," said study leader Nir Barzilai, MD, professor of medicine and genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, director of the Einstein Institute for Aging Research, and the attending physician at Montefiore "But we found that those who live an exceptionally long life have the added advantage of shorter periods of illness -. sometimes only a few weeks or months - before death".
The researchers observed the health of centenarians and inscribed near centenarians in two clinical trials: the longevity genes Project (LGP) and the study of the New England Centenarian (CNE). Since 1998, Dr. Barzilai and his colleagues introduced the LGP, the healthy recruits to live independently Ashkenazi Jewish people 95 years and older from the northeastern United States. In comparison, the LGP includes a group of Ashkenazi Jewish individuals who have a family history of longevity. The CNE began in 1994 as a study of all centenarians who live in eight cities near Boston and later to the participants from North America in general, as well as England, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. NECS The control group consisted of people aged 58-95.
This study compared (1) the 483 participants in the long-term health of individuals with LGP 696 LGP relatively aged 60-94 and 58-95 (2) 1498 CNE health of participants long life 302 elderly from the CNE comparison. In both sets of comparisons, the researchers five major health problems associated with old age analyzed the age at which individuals develop: cancer, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, osteoporosis and stroke. The analysis revealed a consistent pattern of late-onset disease in centenarians LGP and CNE groups compared to their respective control groups.
For example, long for people CNE life, not the cancer afflicting 20 percent of men to 97 years, and women up to 99. In contrast, 20 percent of the participants had to compare CNE developed cancer was 67 for men and 74 for women. The results for LGP were similar for participants durability LGP, the age at which 20 percent had developed cancer was delayed for both sexes on 96th But the cancer 20 percent of men were affected in the years LGP control group and 78 women in the control group 74th
Despite their genetic differences, social and cultural participants long LGP and NECS were remarkably similar in critical illness: Compared to the comparison of the younger groups, the emergence of delayed serious age-related diseases a substantially compressed serious illness too late a few years in the life , The results suggest that the discoveries in a century-old group can be generalized to different population. And contrary to the idea that as people get older, they become sicker and to ensure the cost of it.
The study "compression of morbidity observed with exceptional longevity in cohorts." Besides Dr. Barzilai, other Einstein authors Sofiya Milman, MD, and medical students Khadija Ismail. Other authors were Paola Sebastiani Dr. Stacy Andersen, Ph.D., and Lisa Nussbaum, School of public Health, Boston, MA Boston University and Thomas Perls, MD, MPH, of the Department of Medicine, Boston, MA Boston University.
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