Early-life Predictors of Human Longevity

Abstract

late-life health and survival is being actively discussed in the scientific literature. This idea is also important for understanding the historical changes in human lifespan through the mechanism of technophysio evolution as suggested by Robert Fogel and Dora Costa. Can this new fascinating concept also be useful to understand (at least partially) the observed sex disparities in adult health and longevity? Are the long-lasting effects of early-life conditions identical for both sexes, or, on the contrary, are they sex-specific? These questions stimulated us to conduct the present pilot exploratory study on the sex specificity of late-life health outcomes for early-life effects