Jean Marie Robine

..Some evidence was found to suggest that gender differentials in active life expectancy may continue from younger ages through to later life...

..2. On a descriptive and multivariate level, the analysis investigates the relationship between physical activity and self-rated health in the different nations...

..The high mortality of men in the north and their low mortality in the south are the main explanations of why the FRs are higher in the north and lower in the south. Mortality differentials among women have only a marginal impact...

..Centralizing the count of daily deaths on an operational geographical scale constitutes a priority for Public Health in Europe...

..Between these two measures of the quality of the environment, mortality measures the ageing process leading young vigorous individuals into frail senile elders...

..This will allow assessment of health inequalities between the European Union countries, an appreciation of the causes and the production of profiles for each country in terms of the various facets of health...

..e. the number of years needed to double the number of centenarians), halved in 29 years. Moreover death rates at 100 years and above show a clear decrease if we exclude males at age 105 and over...

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..Our study does not indicate a negative effect of a higher paternal age on the longevity of daughters...

..6. Our results are compatible with the last extrapolations of mortality trajectories using a logistic or a quadratic model...

..After age normalization, the highest normal life durations moved closer to M, implying that the increase in human longevity is meeting some resistance...

..This requires a healthy diet, having physical and intellectual appropriate activities and a right use of medical care. Finally, maintaining a social role and a raison d'être in old age are also major factors in successful aging...

..Our data do not suggest that we are approaching an upper limit in human longevity...

..These divergences offer an opportunity to study the existence of a trade-off between the level of mortality selection and the functional health status of the oldest old survivors which will be seized by the 5-COOP project...

..We aimed to investigate the pattern of inheritance of handgrip strength in a sample of parent-offspring pairs from three different European regions in Denmark, France, and Italy...

..47x(age at first reproduction)0.65. Taking into account the variation due to, i.a., phylogenetic constraints and adaptive divergence, Buffon's idea represents a basic biological relationship between life history characters...

..Men, as "oaks," seem able to delay the afflictions of old age until a breaking point, while women, as "reeds," seem able to survive despite an accumulation of health deficits...

..quot; This theory has to be based on a world harmonization of functional decline measurements and a periodic "International Aging Survey" to monitor global aging through a sample of carefully selected countries...

..We use a longitudinal study with follow-up at 2, 6, and 10 years to assess the impact of different diseases on both total life expectancy (TLE) and disability-free life expectancy (DFLE)...

..but such limitations do not evenly reduce activity performance. We assessed how age, sex and the place of residence (household or institutions) changed the risk of reporting restrictions for similar functional problems...

..CONCLUSION: Nonagenarians and centenarians constitute a new population, which became sizeable after 1950 in Switzerland. There is a need to monitor this population with appropriate demographic and epidemiological indicators...

..Handgrip strength is an important predictor of disability and mortality among old people. The aim was to compare the grip strength among very old people in three regions of Europe...