Scientist Studied 4,330 Centenarians, Found Two Things They Have in Common

Those who live until they are 100 years old may have a "superhuman ability" to be more resistant to certain diseases, a new study has found.

The study, published in the journal eClinical Medicine , was conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm who analyzed the health of a large group of Swedish residents, all born between 1920 and 1922, for up to 30 years.

"My research team has found that people that live to 100 seem to possess the superhuman ability to avoid disease," paper author and epidemiologist professor Karin Modig wrote in The Conversation .

The researchers found that "centenarians had fewer diagnosed conditions and accumulated diseases at a slower rate than non-centenarians."

According to the study's findings, the differences in disease accumulat