Better medical affliction and convalescent lifestyles helped to addition U.S. centenarians' ranks to 72,197 in 2014 from 50,281 in 2000, the Centers for Ache Control and Prevention address said. Added than 80 percent of the centenarians were female.
The numbers should accumulate rising, back the afterlife amount for centenarians has collapsed back 2008, acclaimed the study's author, Jiaquan Xu. Some projections appearance there could be 387,000 U.S. centenarians in 35 years, he noted.
"People are added acquainted of their health, of the accent of blockage alive and bistro advantageous food," Xu said.
Genetic analysis indicates that about 17 percent of the U.S. citizenry has ancestry that access their affairs of alive accomplished 100, said Dr. Thomas Perls, a geriatrician and administrator of the New England Centenarian Abstraction at Boston Medical Center.
"In the aboriginal 1900s and before, humans could calculation on accident about a division of their accouchement to communicable diseases and added accessible bloom problems," Perls said.
But with improvements in angry diseases, humans who are genetically decumbent to reside accomplished 100 are now far added acceptable to survive childhood, he said.
Baby boomers, built-in afterwards World War II through the mid-1960s, are acceptable to cool the ranks of centenarians even further, Perls noted.
The top causes of afterlife a part of centenarians in 2014 were affection disease, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, cancer, affliction and pneumonia, the CDC abstraction found.
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