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TopiaSearch: Health: Aging: Life Expectancy (20)
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US Life Expectancy Improves - 2001 press release from US Dept of Health and Human Services describing recent findings. Death: An Inquiry into Man's Mortal Weakness - The life expectancy page within a much larger effort to put mortality into perspective. Premature Death in the New Independent States - Causes of increased deaths in former states of the USSR. Book chapter viewable online at National Academy Press site. Office of Population Studies, United Nations - Link to documents describing impact of longevity trends on world population. Calculating Life Tables for Homo Sapiens - Class exercise for population ecology class using gravestone information as data. Calculation of Life Expectancy - Concise explanation of the mathematics of life expectancy calculation with links to related concepts. Beyond the 120 Year Diet - Dr. Walford - Book review discusses Calorie Restriction (CRAN / CRON) - how it works and how to safely implement it. (Eds note: not much evidence exists in humans for this strategy, but it does have evidence from rodent models.) Unraveling the Secrets of Human Longevity - Scientific and Educational Website on Human Longevity Studies What Kills Us? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - Discussion of the causes of changes in life expectancy over the last 150 years. Healthy Life Expectancy - Offers an international comparison of disability adjusted life expectancies. Life Expectancy in the Future - Summary of presentations on trends in life expectancy at a Society of Actuaries conference in October, 1997. Innovita Research Institute - Research on aging, molecular concepts of aging, cloning and age-related diseases (Alzheimer's disease, Werner syndrome, Parkinson disease etc.)
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