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So, the doubling in life expectancy in the last hundred years doesn't have anything to do with the deseases like diabetes, dementia, heart desease, etc.? They all appear at advanced age, and 100 year...
On average people lived shorter because many died early, but bunch of people still lived into old age. And nowadays people are developing heart disease even in their 50s whereas heart disease was extremely rare in any age group, even in 50s and beyond.