The head of preventive medicine of Hospital Carlos III directs a study of centenarian people in Spain.

Spain, 2011-August El doctor Juan Martínez Hernández, head of the service of preventive medicine of Hospital Carlos III, is responsible for directing the programme is REBORN, which is the national registry of Spain Centennial. The programme is carried out with the Spanish society of General physicians and family (SEMG) and is the first initiative that coordinates clinicians, epidemiologists, and basic scientists (biochemical and genetic) to develop research on extreme longevity.

According to Dr. Martinez, the programme is REBORN allows important and unpublished studies on the determinants of longevity. I.e. it will describe the State of health of the Centennials and will allow to know any of the factors that favor longevity, from epidemiological aspects, such as those related to the geography, climate, diet and lifestyle, until genetic aspects, can predispose to longevity. In addition, keys will be searched for achieving this extreme longevity with quality of life, i.e., how to extend the
life free of disease.

Registration and follow-up of patients will be through a network of medical staff, especially optional family and primary care, which are in contact with the patients, who receive the protocols of participation for the collection of samples to be collected and studied.

These samples will be the usual studies, biochemical and genetic, always with the consent and under the premises of the biomedical research act test.

The objective of the programme is REBORN, we try to provide some explanation for the phenomenon of extreme longevity, which allows to improve the health of the people of any age, and describe it in terms of State of health of the Centennials and their personal reality and social.