A person’s body size, physical activity and sex were associated with the possibility that person reached 90 years of age, according to findings recently published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

“Most of the current longevity studies investigated men only, or combined both sexes,” Lloyd Brandts, PhD candidate, and Piet A. van den Brandt, professor in the department of epidemiology at Maastricht University Medical Centre in The Netherlands, wrote.