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Journal of Aging Research
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 371039, 12 pages
doi:10.4061/2011/371039
Are Men Aging as Oaks and Women as Reeds? A Behavioral Hypothesis to Explain the Gender Paradox of French Centenarians
1Equipe Démographie et Santé, INSERM, Centre Val d'Aurelle, Parc Euromédecine, U710, 34 298 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
2Fondation Nationale de Gérontologie, 49 rue Mirabeau, 75015 Paris, France
3Department of Human Welfare, Okinawa International University, 2-6-1 Ginowan City, Okinawa 901-2701, Japan
4INSERM, U988 Site CNRS, rue Guy Môquet, 94801 Villejuif Cedex, France
Received 27 February 2011; Revised 1 May 2011; Accepted 10 August 2011
Academic Editor: Leonard W. Poon
Copyright © 2011 Frédéric Balard et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to Cite this Article
Frédéric Balard, Isabelle Beluche, Isabelle Romieu, Donald Craig Willcox, and Jean-Marie Robine, “Are Men Aging as Oaks and Women as Reeds? A Behavioral Hypothesis to Explain the Gender Paradox of French Centenarians,” Journal of Aging Research, vol. 2011, Article ID 371039, 12 pages, 2011. doi:10.4061/2011/371039