Dynamic Determinants of Longevity and Exceptional Health
Figure 6
Kaplan-Meier estimates of probabilities of staying free of the diseases defining the onset of “unhealthy life” for females (a) and males (b) having initial values of diastolic blood pressure (DBP) at age 65, the estimated maximal values of DBP, and the average rates of decline of DBP after reaching the maximum (“intercept,” “maximum,” and “right slope,” respectively, see Section 2) from the lower and upper halves of empirical distributions of these risk factors; P denotes P value for the null hypotheses about the equality of the survival curves in the strata evaluated by the log-rank test.
