Most people struggle with an increasing burden of disease and disability as they age. Research has shown that the life expectancy of people...
Most people struggle with an increasing burden of disease and disability as they age. 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.
"People who live exceptionally long life have the added advantage of shorter periods of illness - sometimes only a few weeks or months -. Before the death"
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The investigator Nir Barzilai, professor of medicine and genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Director of the Institute for the Einstein Aging Research, and the attending physician at Montefiore, said, "but we found that the live exceptionally long life the added advantage of shorter periods of illness have - sometimes just 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 the health of 483 participants with a lifetime LGP LGP 696 persons compared 60-94 years, and the health status of 1498 participants long life CNE with 302 control subjects from CNE 58-95 years. 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.
Cancer, for example, for people CNE long life, no cancer suffers, 20% of men and 97 years, and women up to 99. In contrast, 74 developed 20% of participants with the CNE compared 67 for men and for women. The results for LGP were similar long for participants life LGP, the age at which 20% of cancer was developed delayed at 96 for both sexes. But the cancer 20% 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.
Source: Newswise
