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The NIA rhesus monkey study found:
The NIA study ran for 20 years on two groups of monkeys, "early onset" monkeys who started CR (or being in the control) at a young age and "late onset" who were older. As you'd expect, there were more age-related deaths in the "late onset" group (80 out of 90 monkeys) than the "early onset" (19 out of 90).
By contrast the WNPRC study found that CR did have a positive effect on lifespan:
The WNPRC study had 76 monkeys, 19 of which died from age-related causes.
There's a long discussion section at the end of the NIA article talking about differences between the two studies.
That line from the abstract is an outright lie. Check out the graphs. The actual survival rate was something like 50% vs 60%. CR won, but it was not statistically significant. What this really showed was a trade-off between "age-related mortality" and frailty, although the latter is usually considered "age-related" in humans.