Figure 3.

Average trajectories (±standard errors) of four physiological variables in groups of short-lived individuals (“LS < 75,” i.e., those dying at ages 75 or earlier; censored individuals are excluded from this group) and 100 longest lived individuals in the Framingham Heart Study (original cohort, pooled data from exams 1–28). (A) Body mass index; (B) diastolic blood pressure; (C) cholesterol; (D) ventricular rate. Symbols above the curves correspond to p-values for testing the null hypotheses on equality of means in respective age groups: no symbol: p ≥ 0.05; ^*: 0.01 ≤ p < 0.05; ^#: 0.001 ≤ p < 0.01; ^!: 0.0001 ≤ p < 0.001; ^!!: p < 0.0001.