Men and women who reached their mid-90s in 2010 were mentally sharper than those who hit that mark a decade earlier, according to a Danish cohort study.
The finding is a challenge to the "failure-of-success" hypothesis, in which increased longevity, caused by lowering death from chronic diseases, actually leads to an overall decline in the health of elderly people, according to Kaare Christensen, MD, of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, and colleagues. Read More
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