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The Exceptionally High Life Expectancy of Costa Rican Nonagenarians

Robust data from a voter registry show that Costa Rican nonagenarians have an exceptionally high live expectancy. Mortality at age 90 in Costa Rica is at least 14% lower than an average of 13 high-income countries. This advantage increases with age by 1% per year. Males have an additional 12% advant...

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Main Author: ROSERO-BIXBY, LUIS
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Population Association of America 2008
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831395/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18939667
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