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The Paradoxes of Longevity

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Jean-Marie Robine

    1. Equipe INSERM Démographie et Santé, Val d’Aurelle, Pare Euromédecine, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

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  2. Bernard Forette

    1. Hôpital Sainte Perine, Paris, France

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  3. Claudio Franceschi

    1. INRCA, Ancona, Italy

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  4. Michel Allard

    1. Fondation IPSEN, Paris Cedex 16, France

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Part of the book series: Research and Perspectives in Longevity (RPL)

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Table of contents (11 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Longevity Without Aging: Possible Examples

    • C. E. Finch
    Pages 1-9

  3. Genes that Modulate Longevity and Senescence

    • G. M. Martin
    Pages 11-21

  4. How Mediterranean Fruit Flies Resist Aging, Live Long and Remain Fertile

    • J. R. Carey
    Pages 23-34

  5. Do the Oldest Old Grow Old More Slowly?

    • J. R. Wilmoth, S. Horiuchi
    Pages 35-60

  6. Resistance to Causes of Death: A Study of Cancer Mortality Resistance in the Oldest Old

    • D. W. E. Smith
    Pages 61-71

  7. Are Common Risk Factors Relevant in the Eldest Old?

    • B. Forette
    Pages 73-79

  8. The “French Paradox”: Nutrition and Longevity

    • M. Gerber
    Pages 81-91

  9. Calorie Restriction: A Potent Mechanistic Solution to the Oxygen Paradox

    • B. P. Yu, D. Y. Lee, E. H. Hwang, B. O. Lim
    Pages 93-102

  10. Linguistic Ability in Early Life and Longevity: Findings from the Nun Study

    • D. A. Snowdon, L. H. Greiner, S. J. Kemper, N. Nanayakkara, J. A. Mortimer
    Pages 103-113

  11. Personality and Longevity: Paradoxes

    • H. S. Friedman
    Pages 115-122

  12. Dying Healthy or Living Longer: A Society’s Choice

    • J. Légaré, Y. Carrière
    Pages 123-133

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 135-137
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About this book

An ever greater number of our contemporaries will reach a very much greater age than their ancestors. Longevity is one of the most fertile fields for paradoxes: it is clear that the same causes do not produce the same effects at the age of ten and at the age of one hundred! On the subject of longevity, the "recipe book" is far from having been written. Nevertheless, the Fondation IPSEN has chosen a few of these paradoxes to discuss and try and explain them.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Equipe INSERM Démographie et Santé, Val d’Aurelle, Pare Euromédecine, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

    Jean-Marie Robine

  • Hôpital Sainte Perine, Paris, France

    Bernard Forette

  • INRCA, Ancona, Italy

    Claudio Franceschi

  • Fondation IPSEN, Paris Cedex 16, France

    Michel Allard

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Paradoxes of Longevity

  • Editors: Jean-Marie Robine, Bernard Forette, Claudio Franceschi, Michel Allard

  • Series Title: Research and Perspectives in Longevity

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60100-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64258-6Published: 19 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-60100-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 137

  • Topics: Internal Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine

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