Dynamics of Health Changes in the Oldest Old: New Perspectives and Evidence

Mantón, Kenneth G.; Soldo, Beth J.

doi:10.2307/3349881

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“…And recent studies of mortality among the elderly in the US suggest a similar spreading out of survivorship presumably because of a reduced hazard function due to medical intervention (Schneider and Brody, 1983;Manton and Soldo, 1985).…”

Section: The Extremementioning

confidence: 97%

Are the known chronic diseases related to the human lifespan and its evolution?

Weiss

1989

American J Hum Biol

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There is running debate in the gerontological research literature concerning the relationship between causes of mortality and the human lifespan. Much of this debate concerns whether we can, by biomedical intervention in known degenerative diseases, square the human survivorship curve, at a point near some human "maximum lifespan potential" (MLP) This paper examines the concepts of lifespan and MLP and the relationship between the shape of the survivorship curve and the pattern of age-specific mortality from chronic disease. The MLP need only be viewed as a statistical phenomenon whose genetic determination relates to general human metabolism rather than to programmed events occurring at the end of the human lifespan. The available evidence suggests that slowing of underlying senescence processes will not have the desired effects on survivorship, but rather the opposite.

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Section: The Extremementioning

confidence: 97%

Are the known chronic diseases related to the human lifespan and its evolution?

Weiss

1989

American J Hum Biol

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“…In Stage 5, behavioral change begins to reverse the negative tendencies and make possible a process of 'successful aging'. 4,5 The changes are all driven by a range of factors, including urbanization, economic growth, technical change, and culture. For convenience, the patterns can be thought of as historical developments; however, 'earlier' patterns are not restricted to the periods in which they first arose, but continue to characterize certain geographic and socioeconomic (SES) subpopulations.…”

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confidence: 99%

The nutrition transition: worldwide obesity dynamics and their determinants

2004

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OBJECTIVE: This paper explores the major changes in diet and physical activity patterns around the world and focuses on shifts in obesity. DESIGN: Review of results focusing on large-scale surveys and nationally representative studies of diet, activity, and obesity among adults and children. SUBJECTS: Youth and adults from a range of countries around the world. MEASUREMENTS: The International Obesity Task Force guidelines for defining overweight and obesity are used for youth and the body mass index Z25 kg/m 2 and 30 cutoffs are used, respectively, for adults. RESULTS: The nutrition transition patterns are examined from the time period termed the receding famine pattern to one dominated by nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases (NR-NCDs). The speed of dietary and activity pattern shifts is great, particularly in the developing world, resulting in major shifts in obesity on a worldwide basis. Data limitations force us to examine data on obesity trends in adults to provide a broader sense of changes in obesity over time, and then to examine the relatively fewer studies on youth. Specifically, this work provides a sense of change both in the United States, Europe, and the lower-and middle-income countries of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. CONCLUSION: The paper shows that changes are occurring at great speed and at earlier stages of the economic and social development of each country. The burden of obesity is shifting towards the poor.

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“…This viewpoint has been cogently argued by Manton (1982;Manton and Soldo, 1985;Manton and Woodbury, 1987;Myers and Manton, 1984;Manton et al, 1991), and is supported either explicitly or implicitly by Schatzkin (1980), Schneider and Brody (1983), Peto et al (1986), Vaupel and Owen (1986), Vaupel and Gowan (1986), Schneider and Guralnik (1987), Poterba and Summers (1987), and Rowe and Kahn (1987).…”

Section: Or 100+?mentioning

confidence: 87%