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The Strehler-Mildvan correlation from the perspective of a two-process vitality model.
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- The Strehler-Mildvan mortality correlation arises from changes in the variability of ageing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The Compensation Effect of Mortality: A Global Analysis of Human Populations.Ageing and longevity research · 2025Article
- The Strehler-Mildvan correlation as a valuable tool for monitoring the long-term health status of a population.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Trends in Human Species-Specific Lifespan and Actuarial Aging Rate.Biochemistry. Biokhimiia · 2022Article
- A Tale of Two Concepts: Harmonizing the Free Radical and Antagonistic Pleiotropy Theories of Aging.Antioxidants & redox signaling · 2018Review
- The relationship of mammal survivorship and body mass modeled by metabolic and vitality theories.Population ecology · 2018Article
- Insights into mortality patterns and causes of death through a process point of view model.Biogerontology · 2017Review
- Quantifying Intrinsic and Extrinsic Contributions to Human Longevity: Application of a Two-Process Vitality Model to the Human Mortality Database.Demography · 2016Article
- How the effects of aging and stresses of life are integrated in mortality rates: insights for genetic studies of human health and longevity.Biogerontology · 2016Review
- A Twin Protection Effect? Explaining Twin Survival Advantages with a Two-Process Mortality Model.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
The Strehler and Mildvan (SM) general theory of ageing and mortality provides a mechanism-based explanation of Gompertz's law and predicts a log-linear relationship between the two Gompertz coefficients, known as the SM correlation. While the SM correlation is supported by data from developed countries before the second half of the twentieth century, the recent breakdown of the correlation pattern in these countries has prompted demographers to conclude that SM theory needs to be reassessed. In this paper we use a newly developed two-process vitality model to explain the SM correlation and its breakdown in terms of asynchronous trends in acute (extrinsic) and chronic (intrinsic) mortality factors. We propose that the mortality change in the first half of the twentieth century is largely determined by the elimination of immediate hazards to death, whereas the mortality change in the second half is primarily driven by the slowdown of the deterioration rate of intrinsic survival capacity.
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