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In gerontology, late-life mortality deceleration is the disputed theory that hazard rate increases at a decreasing rate in late life rather than increasing exponentially as in the Gompertz law. Late-life mortality deceleration is a well-established phenomenon in insects, which often spend much of their lives in a constant hazard rate region, but it is much more controversial in mammals. Rodent studies have found varying conclusions, with some finding short-term periods of mortality deceleration in mice, others not finding such. Baboon studies show no mortality deceleration.

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  • In gerontology, late-life mortality deceleration is the disputed theory that hazard rate increases at a decreasing rate in late life rather than increasing exponentially as in the Gompertz law. Late-life mortality deceleration is a well-established phenomenon in insects, which often spend much of their lives in a constant hazard rate region, but it is much more controversial in mammals. Rodent studies have found varying conclusions, with some finding short-term periods of mortality deceleration in mice, others not finding such. Baboon studies show no mortality deceleration. (en)
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  • In gerontology, late-life mortality deceleration is the disputed theory that hazard rate increases at a decreasing rate in late life rather than increasing exponentially as in the Gompertz law. Late-life mortality deceleration is a well-established phenomenon in insects, which often spend much of their lives in a constant hazard rate region, but it is much more controversial in mammals. Rodent studies have found varying conclusions, with some finding short-term periods of mortality deceleration in mice, others not finding such. Baboon studies show no mortality deceleration. An analogous deceleration occurs in the failure rate of manufactured products; this analogy is elaborated in the reliability theory of aging and longevity. Late-life mortality deceleration was first proposed as occurring in human aging in (which also introduced the Gompertz law), and observed as occurring in humans in , and has since become one of the pillars of the biodemography of human longevity – see ; here "late life" is typically "after 85 years of age". However, a recent paper, , concludes that mortality deceleration is negligible up to the age of 106 in the population studied (beyond this point, reliable data were unavailable) and that the Gompertz law is a good fit, with previous observations of deceleration being spurious, with various causes, including bad data and methodological problems – see . According to a 2018 paper, statistical errors are the main cause of apparent mortality deceleration in humans. (en)
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