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We have identified 325 persons who lived in the United States during the prior two decades beyond their 110th birthday, and were deceased as of June 2003. In this chapter we discuss how these supercentenarians were identified, and tabulate their characteristics and mortality.
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Kestenbaum, B., Ferguson, B.R. (2010). Supercentenarians in the United States. In: Maier, H., Gampe, J., Jeune, B., Robine, JM., Vaupel, J. (eds) Supercentenarians. Demographic Research Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11520-2_3
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