Causes of international increases in older age life expectancy.
Lancet
; 385(9967): 540-8, 2015 Feb 07.
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| ID: mdl-25468166
ABSTRACT
In high-income countries, life expectancy at age 60 years has increased in recent decades. Falling tobacco use (for men only) and cardiovascular disease mortality (for both men and women) are the main factors contributing to this rise. In high-income countries, avoidable male mortality has fallen since 1980 because of decreases in avoidable cardiovascular deaths. For men in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, and central Asia, and for women in all regions, avoidable mortality has changed little or increased since 1980. As yet, no evidence exists that the rate of improvement in older age mortality (60 years and older) is slowing down or that older age deaths are being compressed into a narrow age band as they approach a hypothesised upper limit to longevity.
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Asunto principal:
Países Desarrollados
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Dinámica Poblacional
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Esperanza de Vida
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Causas de Muerte
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Países en Desarrollo
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Longevidad
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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2015
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Article