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ArticlePloS one2021

Regularities in human mortality after age 105.

Jesús-Adrián Alvarez, Francisco Villavicencio, Cosmo Strozza, Carlo Giovanni Camarda

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Jesús-Adrián AlvarezInterdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-3724-6149
Francisco VillavicencioDepartment of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America.
Cosmo StrozzaInterdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-8825-2971
Carlo Giovanni CamardaMortality, Health and Epidemiology Unit, National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), Aubervilliers, France.
University of Southern Denmark · DKInstitut national d'études démographiques · FRJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Empirical research on human mortality and extreme longevity suggests that the risk of death among the oldest-old ceases to increase and levels off at age 110. The universality of this finding remains in dispute because of two main reasons: i) high uncertainty around statistical estimates generated from scarce data, and ii) the lack of country-specific comparisons. In this article, we estimate age patterns of mortality above age 105 using data from the International Database on Longevity, an exceptionally large and recently updated database comprising more than 13,000 validated records of long-lived individuals from eight populations. We show that, in all of them, similar mortality trajectories arise, suggesting that the risk of dying levels off after age 105. As more high-quality data become available, there is more evidence in support of a levelling-off of the risk of dying as a regularity of longevous populations.

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LongevityMortalityAgedAged, 80 and overDatabases, FactualFemaleHumansMale

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PMID34260647
PMCPMC8279393
OpenAlexW3179308664

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