Authors
C Franceschi, L Motta, S Valensin, R Rapisarda, A Franzone, M Berardelli, Maurizio Motta, Daniela Monti, M Bonafe, L Ferrucci, L Deiana, GM Pes, C Carru, MS Desole, C Barbi, G Sartoni, C Gemelli, Francesco Lescai, F Olivieri, F Marchegiani, M Cardelli, L Cavallone, P Gueresi, A Cossarizza, L Troiano, G Pini, P Sansoni, G Passeri, R Lisa, L Spazzafumo, L Amadio, S Giunta, R Stecconi, R Morresi, C Viticchi, R Mattace, G De Benedictis, G Baggio, Italian Multicenter Study on Centenarians (IMUSCE)
Publication date
2000/4
Source
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
Volume
12
Pages
77-84
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Description
Gender accounts for important differences in the incidence and prevalence of a variety of age-related diseases. Considering people of far advanced age, demographic data document a clear-cut prevalence of females compared to males, suggesting that sex-specific mortality rates follow different trajectories during aging. In the present investigation, we report data from a nationwide study on Italian centenarians (a total of 1162 subjects), and from two studies on centenarians living in two distinct zones of Italy, i.e., the island of Sardinia (a total of 222 subjects) and the Mantova province (Northern Italy) (a total of 43 subjects). The female/male ratio was about 2:1 in Sardinia, 4:1 in the whole of Italy, and about 7:1 in the Mantova province. Thus, a complex interaction of environmental, historical and genetic factors, differently characterizing the various parts of Italy, likely plays an important role in determining the …
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