Italian supercentenarians: Age validation of deaths from 1969 to 2000

Abstract

This report describes the first stage of the age validation process of Italian supercentenarians. The process is still in progress and to date has only concerned supercentenarians deceased in the period 11969-2000. Of 35 potential supercentenarians included in the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istituto nazionale di statistica, or Tstat) database, 21 cases (three males and 18 females) are fully validated, seven cases refer to false supercentenarians-the error often being a misreported date of birth-…