How long can we live? A more optimistic view of potential gains in life expectancy

A. Schatzkin

American Journal of Public Health, 1980, vol. 70, issue 11, 1199-1200

Abstract: There is good reason to believe that a substantial prolongation of life is statistically and biologically possible. The practical realization of such a gain may be difficult, but there is a profound difference between a challenge and an organically unattainable goal. To increase life expectancy in this period, we should marshal our resources not toward aging per se, our protoplasmic limitations, but primarily toward the reversible social determinants of the leading causes of death that keep us from reaching nine and perhaps ten decades of vigorous, healthy life.

Date: 1980
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