Diabetes mellitus in centenarians.

Objectives: To describe the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in centenarians.

Design: Cross-sectional, population-based.

Setting: Forty-four counties in northern Georgia.

Cognitive function, physical performance, health, and disease: norms from the georgia centenarian study.

This study provides, for the first time, normative data on cognitive functioning and physical performance, health and health behaviors, and diseases from a population-based sample of 244 centenarians and near-centenarians (M age = 100.5 years, range 98-108, 84.8% women, 21.