Pneumonia and General weakening of the body significantly shorten life.
Pneumonia and General weakening of the body were the most frequent causes of death of elderly aged 100 years or more, at the same time, heart disease, cancer, other chronic diseases receded into the background. This fact is confirmed by the recent study of British scientists, published June 3 in the journal PLoS Medicine.
The study researchers found that the pneumonia killed nearly 18% of centenarians, and from heart disease died 9%, from the same cancer only 4.5%. It turned out that within the studied period, the mortality of centenarians has increased by 56%.
The findings will help to adjust strategies of care for the centenarians who lived to 100 years of age and older, whose number is growing rapidly. It is expected that after 35 years, more than 3 million people will be aged over 100 years.
The study was conducted on the basis of statistical data on causes of death 36 thousand British centenarians for the period from 2001 to 2010. About 87
