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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2013

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Introduction
Graziella Caselli and Marc Luy: Determinants of unusual and differential longevity

Refereed Articles
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field: Mortality deceleration is not informative of unobserved heterogeneity in open groups

Shiro Horiuchi, Nadine Ouellette, Siu Lan Karen Cheung and Jean-Marie Robine: Modal age at death: lifespan indicator in the era of longevity extension

Jon Anson: Surviving to be the oldest old—destiny or chance?

Michel Poulain, Anne Herm and Gianni Pes: The Blue Zones: areas of exceptional longevity around the world

Luis Rosero-Bixby, William H. Dow and David H. Rehkopf: The Nicoya region of Costa Rica: a high longevity island for elderly males

Sebastian Klüsener and Rembrandt D. Scholz: Regional hot spots of exceptional longevity in Germany

Richard G. Rogers, Patrick M. Krueger, Richard Miech and Elizabeth M. Lawrence: Lifetime abstainers and mortality risk in the United States

Maria Winkler-Dworak and Heiner Kaden: The longevity of academicians: evidence from the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig

Morgan E. Levine and Eileen M. Crimmins: Evidence of resiliency among long-lived smokers

Ethan J. Sharygin and Michel Guillot: Ethnicity, russification and excess mortality in Kazakhstan

Graziella Caselli, Rosa Maria Lipsi, Enrica Lapucci and James W. Vaupel: Exploring Sardinian longevity: women fertility and parental transmission of longevity

Valérie Jarry, Alain Gagnon and Robert Bourbeau: Maternal age, birth order and other early-life factors: a family-level approach to exploring exceptional survival

Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova: Determinants of exceptional human longevity: new ideas and findings

Luisa Salaris, Nicola Tedesco and Michel Poulain: Familial transmission of human longevity: a population-based study in an inland village of Sardinia (Italy), 1850–2010

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Determinants of exceptional human longevity: new ideas and findings

    Leonid A. Gavrilov, Natalia S. Gavrilova

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2013, pp. 295-323, 2024/12/12

doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s295

doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s295


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Abstract

Studies of centenarians are useful in identifying factors leading to long life and avoidance of fatal diseases. In this article we consider several approaches to study effects of early-life and midlife conditions on survival to advanced ages: use of non-biological relatives as controls, the within-family analysis, as well as a sampling of controls from the same population universe as centenarians. These approaches are illustrated using data on American centenarians, their relatives and unrelated shorterlived controls obtained from the online genealogies. The within-family analysis revealed that young maternal age at person’s birth is associated with higher chances of exceptional longevity. Comparison of centenarians and their shorter-lived peers (died at age 65 and sampled from the same pool of online genealogies) confirmed that birth timing in the second half of the calendar year predicts survival to age 100. Parental longevity as well as some childhood and midlife characteristics also proved to be significant predictors of exceptional longevity.