Centenarians in recent studies show a remarkable ability to avoid serious diseases, with findings indicating they get fewer illnesses and experience them more slowly. Research conducted on 170,787 individuals revealed that these older adults maintain lower disease rates throughout their lives, particularly in aging-related conditions like strokes and heart attacks. By the age of 100, only a small percentage had faced significant health issues, suggesting a unique aging pattern that delays or avoids illness, contradicting traditional views about aging and health deterioration.
Centenarians tend to develop fewer diseases, accumulate them more slowly, and in many cases avoid the most deadly age-related conditions altogether, despite living far longer.
Exceptional longevity is linked to a distinct pattern of ageing in which illness is delayed or even avoided entirely, challenging the belief that longer life leads to more years of poor health.
By the age of 100, just 12.5 percent of centenarians had experienced a heart attack, compared to more than 24 percent of those who died in their 80s.
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