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centenarian offspring
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They may represent a model for understanding exceptional longevity for the following reasons: they exhibit a protective genetic background, cardiovascular and immunological profile, as well as a reduced rate of cognitive decline than age-matched people without centenarian relatives.
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improving the life quality of elderly people as priority of the continuous increase of ageing population; understanding the biological mechanisms involved in determining the positive ageing phenotype, i.e. the centenarian phenotype.
Dr Carmela Rita Balistreri
University of Palermo
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This page is a summary of: Centenarian Offspring: A Model for Understanding Longevity, Current Vascular Pharmacology, December 2013, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1570161111666131219113544.
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