Having a parent live to 100 gives you a leg up on longevity, study finds

There’s a distance of 43 years between the oldest known human to ever live, Jeanne Calment, who died at age 122, and the current U.S. life expectancy of 79 years. “The chances of making it to 100 for the vast majority of the population is remote,” said S. Jay Olshansky, an emeritus professor of epid...

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