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Why do some regions have many “supercentenarians” while other regions don't?

Poor record-keeping might be the reason why some countries have more supercentenarians than others

09-Aug-2019

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Only about one in 1,000 people who live to the age of 100 make it to 110.

Sardinia is one of the few regions in the world with a high concentration of people who live past 110.

Majority of the supercentenarians in the USA are engaged in intentional or unintentional exaggeration.

Some of the supercentenarians might be provided by pension fraud.

Majority of people claiming to be supercentenarians are probably not, because of unreliable birth record data.

Working paper released on bioRxiv.

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Australian National University (ANU)

Australia’s only national university.

bioRxiv

The preprint server for biology.

Saul Justin Newman

ANU Postdoctoral Fellow on machine learning in plants & humans.

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