Descriptive and predictive analysis identify centenarians' characteristics from the Basque population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Centenarians exhibit extreme longevity and have been postulated, by some researchers, as a model for healthy aging. The identification of the characteristics of centenarians might be useful to understand the process of human aging.

Methods

In this retrospective study, we took advantage of demographic, clinical, biological, and functional data of deceased individuals between 2014 and 2020 in Guipúzcoa (Basque Country, Spain) taken from the Basque Health Service electronic health records data lake. Fifty characteristics derived from demographic, clinical, pharmaceutical, biological, and functional data were studied in the descriptive analysis and compared through differences in means tests. Twenty-seven of them were used to build machine learning models in the predi

SUBMITTER: Cruces-Salguero S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905795 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature