... to the recent revision of mortality trajectories at older ages. Earlier studies assumed the so-called “old-age mortality deceleration,” “mortality leveling-off,” and “mortality plateaus” when death rates at extremely old ages do not grow as fast as at younger ages [ 2 ]. However, studies of more recent and more...

... Database and data on the mortality of 1,681 siblings of centenarians [ 16,17 ]. The same conclusion was drawn after an analysis of mortality trajectories in 8 cohorts of laboratory mice and 10 cohorts of laboratory rats [ 17 ]. Thus, for all 3 mammalian species, the Gompertz model fits the mortality data...