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SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research Cardiology Research and Practice Volume 2011, Article ID 679187, 7 pages doi:10.4061/2011/679187 Research Article Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Statistics of Oldest Old People (80 Years) Living in Ikaria Island: The Ikaria Study Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Christina Chrysohoou, Gerasimos Siasos, Konstantinos Zisimos, John Skoumas, Christos Pitsavos, and Christodoulos Stefanadis First Cardiology Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Correspondence should be addressed to Christina Chrysohoou, chrysohoou@ Received 27 August 2010; Accepted 17 December 2010 Academic Editor: Undurti N. Das Copyright © 2011 Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background. There are places around the world where people live longer and they are active past the age of 100 years, sharing common behavioral characteristics; these places (i.e., Sardinia in Italy, Okinawa in Japan, Loma Linda in California and Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica) have been named the “Blue Zones”. Recently it was reported that people in Ikaria Island, Greece, have also one of the highest life expectancies in the world, and joined the “Blue Zones”. The aim of this work work was to evaluate various demographic, lifestyle and psychological characteristics of very old (80 years) people participated in Ikaria Study. Methods. During 2009, 1420 people (aged 30+) men and women from Ikaria Island, Greece, were voluntarily enrolled in the study. For this work, 89 males and 98 females over the age of 80 yrs were studied (13% of the sample). S