Hypertension, but Not Cancer or Obesity, Is Compatible With Extreme Longevity

Here are a couple of very interesting papers, drawn from a huge data set. Some insights about which non-communicable diseases have real impact on your odds of reaching centenarian status. And some insights about heritability and disease.

Hypertension, but Not Cancer or Obesity, Is Compatible With Extreme Longevity: A Multi-Institution Analysis of 733,919 US Centenarians

https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.70691

Exceptional Parental Longevity and Onset of Morbidity and Mortality Across Cohorts

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2853297