Families enriched for exceptional longevity also have increased health span: Findings from the Long Life Family Study

• Main Authors: Paola eSebastiani (Author), Fangui eSun (Author), Stacy Lynn Andersen (Author), Joseph eLee (Author), Mary Kaye Wojczynski (Author), Jason L Sanders (Author), Anatoliy I Yashin (Author), Anne B Newman (Author), Thomas T Perls (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2013-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hypothesizing that members of families enriched for longevity delay morbidity compared to population controls and approximate the health-span of centenarians, we compared the health spans of older generation subjects of the Long Life Family Study (LLFS) to controls without family history of longevit...