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Autor:
Anthony Medford, James W Vaupel
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 3, p e0212345 (2019)
Has the maximum human lifespan been reached? The current record stands at 122 years, 164 days and has held for over 20 years and is more than four and three quarter years higher than the previous record. The value and persistence of this record have
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https://doaj.org/article/b591ddb9f48546c687ba8d12f4ba9662
Autor:
Anna Oksuzyan, Panayotes Demakakos, Maria Shkolnikova, Mikael Thinggaard, James W Vaupel, Kaare Christensen, Vladimir M Shkolnikov
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 9, p e0182684 (2017)
This study compares handgrip strength and its association with mortality across studies conducted in Moscow, Denmark, and England.The data collected by the Study of Stress, Aging, and Health in Russia, the Study of Middle-Aged Danish Twins and the Lo
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https://doaj.org/article/77011d2080b84592a0a8c6a4e12ea60a
Autor:
James R Carey, Pablo Liedo, Cong Xu, Jane-Ling Wang, Hans-Georg Müller, Yu-Ru Su, James W Vaupel
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 7, p e0158468 (2016)
Despite the importance of trauma in healthspan and lifespan in humans as well as in non-human species, with one important exception the literature in both gerontology and ecology contains virtually no experimental demographic studies concerned with t
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https://doaj.org/article/2958784b12e44e97bb5f43dfd4271485
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 6, p e0131691 (2015)
The apparent contradiction that women live longer but have worse health than men, the so called male-female health-survival paradox, is very pronounced in Russia. The present study investigates whether men in Moscow are healthier than women at the le
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https://doaj.org/article/e684b3a0c3d74705ab60c68ce77d8361
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 2, p e57133 (2013)
Semelparous organisms have a simple life cycle characterized by immediate death after reproduction. We assume that semelparous life histories can be separated into a juvenile non-reproductive period followed by an adult period during which reproducti
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https://doaj.org/article/8025c9e325644eba9d2655ffbc5cb74b
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 5, p e37177 (2012)
Studies show that the U.S. foreign-born population has lower mortality than the native-born population before age 65. Until recently, the lack of data prohibited reliable comparisons of U.S. mortality by nativity at older ages. This study provides re
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https://doaj.org/article/d650adb69ae2406db8b1084bd25a8f5f
Publikováno v:
BMJ Open, Vol 1, Iss 1 (2011)
Objectives To determine the contribution of progress in averting premature deaths to the increase in life expectancy and the decline in lifespan variation.Design International comparison of national life table data from the Human Mortality Database.S
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https://doaj.org/article/98af329a257642b0b6caa568c9371e8d
Autor:
David A Gunn, Helle Rexbye, Christopher E M Griffiths, Peter G Murray, Amelia Fereday, Sharon D Catt, Cyrena C Tomlin, Barbara H Strongitharm, Dave I Perrett, Michael Catt, Andrew E Mayes, Andrew G Messenger, Martin R Green, Frans van der Ouderaa, James W Vaupel, Kaare Christensen
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 4, Iss 12, p e8021 (2009)
The desire of many to look young for their age has led to the establishment of a large cosmetics industry. However, the features of appearance that primarily determine how old women look for their age and whether genetic or environmental factors pred
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https://doaj.org/article/250738df20184c7586ab77efae121049
How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, aged 105-109, stored in the
This book visualizes mortality dynamics in the Lexis diagram. While the standard approach of plotting death rates is also covered, the focus in this book is on the depiction of rates of mortality improvement over age and time. This rather novel appro