{"id":154,"date":"2007-03-19T12:51:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T11:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/03\/19\/arch-intern-med-12-mar-2007-vol-167\/"},"modified":"2007-03-19T12:51:40","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T11:51:40","slug":"arch-intern-med-12-mar-2007-vol-167","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/03\/19\/arch-intern-med-12-mar-2007-vol-167\/","title":{"rendered":"Arch Intern Med  12 Mar 2007  Vol 167"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/167\/5\/438\">Longevity<\/a> is a subject which has interested people from the dawn of history. <!--more-->All early literature \u2013 from Sumer, the Bible, classical legend etc \u2013 puts forward the idea that men used to live much longer, and that the modern lifespan is a product of spiritual and physical degeneration; and Doris Lessing, who believes we are all a bad lot, has revived this idea in her fiction. In fact we live a lot longer than any properly attested ancestors \u2013 except for a few individuals who belong to families which are very long-lived. The longer they live, the more heritable this seems \u2013 so that if you have parents who lived to 95, you are more likely to follow suit than if they lived to 90, and so on. Closely observed cohorts like the Framingham population will eventually, perhaps, give us more clues about why: for the present, we have this study showing a link to reduced cardiovascular risk factors in early middle life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBehind closed doors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longevity is a subject which has interested people from the dawn of history. 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