Medical Xpress September 10, 2024
Swedes are living to increasingly older ages. Thirty years ago, 85–90- year-olds were rare, but now the majority reach that age—and two percent even get to see 100 candles on their birthday cake.
“Centenarians are the age group that is increasing the most now,” says Karin Modig, Associate Professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet, who researches aging and health.
In a study published in the journal GeroScience, she and her colleagues show that it is possible to predict who has the greatest chance of becoming very old already during early aging. The study is based on approximately 44,000 Swedes who underwent health examinations between 1985 and 1996, aged between 64 and 99. Of these, 1,224 individuals...
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