A survey of the residential environment of centenarians.

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Centenarians are considered "healthy elite" in terms of having a healthy life style. In order to survey from the standpoints of medical climatology and geography on health, in compliance with the "National long-lived persons register of names by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, " their distribution was first studied by plotting on a map of Japan. The residential distribution of centenarians was analysed also in relation to climatic regions, based on air temperature, vegetation, and so on. The 9 climatic regions in Japan, consisting of the Hokkaido, the Japan Sea side, the Pacific Ocean side the Sanriku district, the Tokai district, the Nairiku inland district, the Seto Inland Sea district, the Northern Kyushu district, the Nankai district and the south-western Islands. According to the above mentioned register of 1, 349 names, released in 1980, the climate of the "Seto Inland Sea district", which was observed the largest numbers of 375 persons, 27.8% in all centenarians and 1.69 persons per 100, 000 population, appears to be remarkable. The region has a climate with warm air temperature, high amount of sunshine hours, an abundance of marine and cereal products, high products and a favourable economic situation. All of these result in practically development of the principles of the geography of health.
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