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Life expectancy and active life expectancy by disability status in older U.S. adults.

PLoS ONE, 2020
ObjectivesThe Medicare Health Outcome Survey (HOS) is the largest longitudinal survey of the U.S. community-dwelling elderly population. This study estimated total life expectancy, active life expectancy (ALE), and disability-free life expectancy (DFLE ...
Haomiao Jia, Erica I Lubetkin
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Real age-adjusted life expectancy

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2013
This study summarises the development of a model to determine an individual’s adjusted life expectancy based on his Real Age. The model incorporates aspects such as gender, residing province, income, HIV status, ethnic background, weight, exercise ...
Duncan Palmer, Niel Krige
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Targeted Minimum Loss-Based Estimation of Causal Effects in Right-Censored Survival Data with Time-Dependent Covariates: Warfarin, Stroke, and Death in Atrial Fibrillation

Journal of Causal Inference, 2013
Causal effects in right-censored survival data can be formally defined as the difference in the marginal cumulative event probabilities under particular interventions.
Brooks Jordan C., van der Laan Mark J., Singer Daniel E., Go Alan S.   +3 more
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Impact of diabetes mellitus on life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy in Canada

Population Health Metrics, 2012
The objectives of this study were to estimate life expectancy (LE) and health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) for Canadians with and without diabetes and to evaluate the impact of diabetes on population health using administrative and survey data ...
Loukine Lidia, Waters Chris, Choi Bernard CK, Ellison Joellyn   +3 more
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Life Expectancy

, 2015
The analysis of life expectancy and longevity is one approach to analysing diversity in the population of ancient Egypt. It is, however, important to understand the difficulties in such calculations and in the data from which such calculations are derived. Adult age is difficult to determine either from documentary or biological sources, so average age-
Yan Qian, Beibei Wang, Nan Huang, Suzhen Cao, Xiuge Zhao, Xiaoli Duan   +5 more
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Entrepreneurial Women and Life Expectancy [PDF]

New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, 2002
NEJE Editors interview Cindi Bigelow: director of activities at Bigelow ...
Jeannette Oppedisano, Sandra Lueder
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LIFE EXPECTANCY IN ROMANIA [PDF]

Risk in Contemporary Economy, 2014
In this research we can to observe the statistical modeling concerning the Life Expectancy in Romania, between 2000-2013, through by means of the „Least Squares Method”. The Life Expectancy reflects the average duration of the life concerning a person in
Gabriela OPAIT
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Change trend and gender differences in disability-free life expectancy among older adults in China, 2010–2020

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
ObjectiveThe goal of the present study was to investigate gender differences in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and DFLE/LE ratio among older adults in China; portray changing trend from 2010 to 2020; and discuss the implications for public ...
Min Lu, Xuehui Wang, Kaijun Shen, Chengpeng Ji, Wenxia Li   +4 more
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Network analysis reveals causal relationships among individual background risk factors leading to influenza susceptibility

Scientific Reports
Influenza is a serious infectious disease that spreads rapidly and causes numerous deaths worldwide. Although the biological and environmental risk factors for influenza susceptibility have been extensively studied, individual risk factors, such as ...
Akihide Terada, Kenji Fujimoto, Kazuyoshi Kise, Kenta Fujiwara, Eiichiro Uchino, Yutaka Mizuma, Yoshinori Nishioku, Kenzo Takahashi, Ken Itoh, Tatsuya Mikami, Koichi Murashita, Shigeyuki Nakaji, Yukihiro Fujita, Yasushi Okuno, Yoshinori Tamada   +14 more
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Alcohol and life expectancy

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
The recent three leading risk factors for global disease burden in the world are, in descending order, high blood pressure, tobacco smoking including second-hand smoke, and alcohol use.
Ichiro Wakabayashi, Klaus Groschner
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