Response to Comment on "Inflammatory Exposure and Historical Changes in Human Life-Spans"

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Abstract
The historical demography of Sweden offers unique profiles of mortality across the life span, beginning before the industrial revolution when mortality was high from birth into old age. The age-specific mortality trajectories from 1751 to 1940 show that old-age mortality declined in a cohort fashion, not a period fashion across all ages [seefigure1 in (2)]. These historical cohorts retain a coherent mortality trajectory, which we described as the “cohort morbidity phenotype” (2).
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