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First autopsy study of an Okinawan centenarian — absence of many age-related diseases
Author(s)	Adam M Bernstein, Bradley J Willcox, Hitoshi Tamaki
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 59A, no 11, November 2004
Pages	pp 1195-1199
Source	http://www.geron.org
Keywords	Centenarians ; Older women ; Health [elderly] ; Death ; Postmortems ; Case studies ; Japan.
Annotation	Consistent with the compression of morbidity hypothesis, several studies have reported that a significant proportion of centenarians delay or escape age-related diseases. Of those who live with such diseases for a long time, they appear to do so with better functional status than do younger people who do not achieve extreme old age. The authors describe the first autopsy for a centenarian from Okinawa, Japan who escaped many age-related illnesses and delayed frailty toward the end of her very long life. Her late-life morbidity pattern is contrasted with that of white centenarians. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-050505207 A
Classmark	BBT: BD: CC: CW: JVP: 69P: 7DT
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