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Racial differences in health grow smaller in the oldest populations and African Americans who survive to join the oldest-old category have a slightly longer life expectancy than whites of the same age.

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Answer: That is True.

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Many studies have attributed the crossover to the “survival of the fittest,” suggesting that difficult conditions faced by African Americans during their younger ages made the weakest ones among cohort to high mortality with only the most strongest reaching old age

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