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ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2017

Male Centenarians: How and Why Are They Different from Their Female Counterparts?

Thomas T Perls

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Article in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Observational
  2. From 70 to 100: The Kuakini Hawaii Centenarian Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025
    Article
  3. Tailored Approach to Designing a Digital Research Platform for Adults Aged 95 and Older: SuperAgers Family Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025
    Article
  4. The landscape of aging.Science China. Life sciences · 2022
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Thomas T PerlsGeriatrics Section, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA.

Funding

Systems BiologyU19AG023122 · NIA · TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INST · PI Thomas Girke, NICHOLAS Joseph SCHORK · 2004 to 2026
$102.6M
The Long Life Family StudyU01AG023755 · NIA · BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER · PI PERLS, THOMAS T · 2004 to 2018
$13.2M
Plasma beta-amyloid in long lived families: genetics and risk of ADU01AG023749 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI COSENTINO, STEPHANIE ANN, LEE, JOSEPH HYUNGWOO · 2004 to 2018
$13.0M
NIA NIH HHS U01 AG023749NIA NIH HHS U01 AG023755NIA NIH HHS U19 AG023122
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

VeteransAged, 80 and overChronic DiseaseFemaleHumansIncidenceIndependent LivingMale

Identifiers

PMID28586117
PMCPMC5603374

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