International Conference

Determinants of Unusual and Differential Longevity

Session 1: Longevity of the oldest-old (Chair: Bill Butz)

Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova: “Determinants of exceptional human longevity: new ideas and findings” more
Jon Anson: “Surviving to be the oldest old – destiny or chance?” more
Karen Cheung SL and Jean-Marie Robine: “Predictors of longevity: evidence from the near-centenarians and centenarians in Hong Kong” more

Session 2: Time trends in longevity and mortality (Chair: Graziella Caselli)

Frans van Poppel, Govert Bijwaard, Mart van Lieburg, Fred van Lieburg and Rik Hoekstra: “Medical men: forerunners in the mortality decline in the Netherlands?” more
Jim Oeppen and Oskar Burger: “North-west European exceptional longevity in a global context: 1550-2000” more
Maria Winkler-Dworak: “The low mortality of Learned Societies: an international comparison” more

Session 3: Risk factors and determinants of longevity in national populations
(Chair: Isabella Buber-Ennser)

Frederik Peters, Wilma J. Nusselder and Johan P. Mackenbach: “Measuring the relative progress of mortality improvement to evaluate stagnation and sudden increase of life expectancy in the Netherlands 1950-2008” more
Jean-Marie Robine, François R. Herrmann, Yasumichi Arai, D. Craig Willcox, Yasuyuki Gondo, Nobuyushi Hirose, Makoto Suzuki and Yasuhiko Saito: “Exploring the impact of climate on human longevity”
Alyson van Raalte, Mikko Myrskylä and Pekka Martikainen: “The impact of smoking on mortality compression: an analysis of Finnish occupational classes, 1971-2007” more

Session 4: Inheritance of longevity and effects related to reproduction (Chair: Jim Oeppen)

Graziella Caselli, Enrica Lapucci, Rosa Maria Lipsi and James W. Vaupel: “Exploring Sardinian longevity: fertility and parental longevity” more
Luisa Salaris, Nicola Tedesco and Michel Poulain: “Familial transmission of human longevity: a population-based study in an inland village of Sardinia (Italy), 1850-2010”
Valérie Jarry, Alain Gagnon and Robert Bourbeau: “To what extent is exceptional longevity associated with parental age at childbirth and birth order?” more

Poster Session

Petya Braynova: “An age-decomposition of the difference in life expectancy between men and women - body mass index and non-smoking effects” more
Nika Maglaperidze: “Analysis of changed life expectancy in Georgia from 1989 to 2010” more
Frederik Peters, Wilma J. Nusselder and Johan P. Mackenbach: “ New worries in measurement of population health – life expectancy reconsidered”
Pia Wohland, Philip Rees and Carol Jagger: “Explaining inequality in mortality and health across the UK – mind the gap” more
Elena Zemlyanova: “Analysis of geographic peculiarities of longevity distribution in Russia” more

Session 5: Longevity islands (Chair: Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz)

Rembrandt D. Scholz and Sebastian Klüsener: “Exceptional longevity by place of birth and place of death in Germany: How consistent and informative are spatial patterns?” more
Michel Poulain, Anne Herm and Gianni Pes: “The blue zones: areas of exceptional longevity around the world”
Luis Rosero-Bixby: “The Nicoya peninsula in Costa Rica: a longevity island for adult males”

Session 6: Phenomena of unusual longevity (Chair: Richard G. Rogers)

Ethan Sharygin: “Uncovering unusual mortality differentials in Russia and Kazahkhstan” more
Junji Kageyama: “Exploring the myth of unhappiness in former Communist countries: the roles of the sex gap in life expectancy and marital status composition” more

Session 7: Longevity and mortality of specific risk groups (Chair: Charlotte Höhn)

Katharina Belting, Ronny Westerman and Ulrich O. Mueller: “Reproductive history and mortality of fertile and subfertile men” more
Rick Rogers, Patrick M. Krueger, Richard Miech and Elizabeth Lawrence: “Teetotalers and mortality risk” more
Morgan E. Levine: “Evidence of resiliency among long-lived smokers” more

Session 8: Modal age at death and the process of rectangularization (Chair: Sergei Scherbov)

Shiro Horiuchi, Nadine Ouellette, Siu Lan K. Cheung and Jean-Marie Robine: “Modal age at death: life span indicator in the era of longevity extension” more
Fanny Janssen, Valentin Rousson and Fred Paccaud: “The role of smoking in rectangularization and longevity extension in western Europe” more
Viorela Dianconu, Robert Bourbeau, Nadine Ouellette and Carlo G. Camarda: “Changes in the age-at-death distribution by leading causes of death in Canada: an innovative analysis through a non-parametric method” more