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Centenarians as Model of Longevity and Healthy Aging
The number of centenarians should witness a substantial increase worldwide during the twenty-first century. The Population Division of the United Nations enunciated it should reach more than 20 million people in 2100, rising from 0.5 million in 2017 (Robine and Cubaynes 2017; United Nations 2017). Indeed, the older adults are actually the fastest growing segment of the population. While aging has been studied for many years, it is only recently that longevity has attracted the interest of scientists who started to consider centenarians as “special people” because they avoided or postponed the onset of major age-related diseases. Centenarians can be considered the most informative human model of healthy aging with minimal influence of diseases and comorbidities. This model allows the identification of the...
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Ferri, E., Casati, M., Arosio, B. (2019). Anthropometric Indices and Nutritional Parameters in Centenarians. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_119-1
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