Eksempler på centenarian

• In centenarians, inflammaging is always accompanied by anti-inflammaging and their balance is likely to be crucial to attain healthy aging and longevity.

• Other data illustrating the importance of the immune system in healthy aging come from studies on centenarians.

• Self-rated health is on average somewhat lower among nonagenarians and centenarians, but the percentage reporting poor health is similar to that reported by octogenarians.

• Recent work indicates that the mortality of very old people, including centenarians, has fallen considerably, at least in those countries where good data exist.

• With regard to personality,33,34 centenarians showed more dominance, suspiciousness and imagination than younger old people, and exhibited more cognitive, as opposed to behavioural, coping.

• The body of a centenarian is quite capable of mounting an effective inflammatory response (good adaptation and remodelling), thus becoming more robust.

• The findings also illustrate that the effect differed by age, for the relationship was significant for octogenarians and nonagenarians but insignificant for centenarians.

• The baseline survey tried to interview all centenarians in the included areas.