LongeviQuest Publishes Paper in the European Conference on Aging & Gerontology Proceedings

In July, Jimmy Lindberg attended the European Conference on Aging & Gerontology and presented research conducted by LongeviQuest on supercentenarians, including who they are, when they were born, died and the number that has been validated.

Building on the conference presentation, a paper was finished by Lindberg and Jeffrey Xu that further analysed supercentenarians, detailing the emergence of supercentenarians over time, supercentenarian mortality, age distribution, location of supercentenarians, seasonality patterns in birth and death (it was revealed that the majority of supercentenarians were born and died during the colder months of the year), and survival.

The main findings in the paper were that the number of supercentenarians has increased sharply over time, that the majority were female and that there appears to be a one-year mortality plateau at about 50% for supercentenarians aged 110-113 but that mortality appears to accelerate thereafter. It was understood that some areas of the world (including India and China) are underexplored, and a greater understanding of supercentenarians from these areas needs to be acquired. Seasonality was also a main finding and needs to be researched further.

LongeviQuest would like to thank other supercentenarian research organisations from whom some included supercentenarians were identified and subsequently further researched to fit the age validation criteria at LongeviQuest. Nobody can do it all and we also thank every person who has been involved in the age validation process and in the writing of this paper.

The paper can be read in full here: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-4937.2024.4

Reference
Lindberg J., & Xu J. (2024) Supercentenarians – The Conquerors of Aging. The European Conference on Aging & Gerontology 2024: Official Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-4937.2024.4