中国结合医学杂志（英文版）Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine

Author Name	Affiliation	E-mail
CHEN Ke-ji	Xiyuan Hospital, Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing (100091), China	kjchenvip@163.com

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Abstract:

International geriatric life science community, including medical and scientific communities, currently considers human life expectancy to be about 120 years. This is in congruence with recordings from "Hong Fan–Book of Documents (Shang Shu ? Hong Fan)", and is also in general agreement with teachings from "Longevity–Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine (Huang Di Nei Jing ? Tian Nian)" where it is said 'a man is to die at age of a hundred years' meaning 'passing away after living a hundred years'. Recently there is a report of people dying at the age of 150 years in England, I am afraid this is misinformed.