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Department of Oncology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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National Unit of Pediatric Oncology, Francisco Marroquin University School of Medicine, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Unit, Tegucigalpa School Hospital, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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Pediatric Oncology Unit, Dr Jose Renan Esquivel Children's Hospital, Panama City, Panama.
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Department of Oncology, Benjamin Bloom National Children's Hospital, El Salvador City, El Salvador.
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Department of Oncology, St Damien Hospital, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Department of Oncology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Division of Palliative and End of Life Care, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Pediatric Oncology/Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Departamento de Ecología Humana, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav), Unidad Mérida, Mérida, Mexico.
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The Vanderbilt Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
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Neurology Service, Hospital Santo Tomás, Panama City 0819-03752, Panama.
School of Medicine, Universidad Interamericana de Panamá, Panama City 0830-00929, Panama.
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Neurology Service, Hospital San Juan de Dios CCSS, San Jose 1475-1000, Costa Rica.
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Neurology Service, Hospital Horacio Oduber, Oranjestad 569, Aruba.
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Neurology Service, Complejo Hospitalario Dr. Arnulfo Arias Madrid CSS, Panama City 0831-01654, Panama.
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Neurology Service, Hospital Regional Rafael Hernández CSS, David City 0816-06808, Panama.
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Life expectancy (LE) has usually been used as a metric to monitor population health. In the last few years, metrics such as Quality-Adjusted-Life-Expectancy (QALE) and Health-Adjusted-Life- Expectancy...
Based on life tables constructed using Chiang II´s method, we estimated the LE of the population in Chile by age strata. Probabilities of dying were estimated from mortality data obtained from nationa...
LE at birth for Chile was estimated in 80.4 years, which is consistent with demographic national data. QALE and HALE at birth were 69.8 and 62.4 respectively. Men are expected to live 6.1% less than w...
The distribution of LE, QALE and HALEs in Chile shows a clear gradient favouring better-off populations that decreases over people´s lives. Differences in LE favouring women contrast with differences ...
Few studies have investigated the change in life expectancy (LE) and the healthy lifespan among patients with advanced schistosomiasis. This study was to evaluate the LE and healthy life expectancy (H...
We utilized data from a dynamic advanced schistosomiasis cohort (10,362 patients) for the period from January 2008 to December 2019 in Hunan Province, China, to calculate the LEs of patients, and made...
The estimated LE for advanced schistosomiasis patients aged 15-19 was 49.51 years (48.86 years for males and 51.07 years for females), which was 20.14 years lower compared with general population (69....
The LE of advanced schistosomiasis patients was still much lower compared with general population. Strengthened prevention strategies and targeted treatments are needed to reduce morbidity and mortali...
This article contributes to the discussion on the determinants of diverging life expectancy in high-income countries, with a focus on Germany. To date, much of this discourse has centered around the s...
Ethnic and racial differences in life expectancy have been well established in different societies. However, even though an important part of the population of Latin America is Indigenous, there is li...
Determine if there are ethnic differences in life expectancy at birth and at 60 years in Chile, and if the Mapuche (largest Indigenous ethnic group) have similar life expectancy to other Indigenous pe...
Life tables for the Mapuche and other Indigenous groups and non-Indigenous people were built using the 2017 census. Specifically, we used the questions of the number of live children born and the numb...
Indigenous Chileans have seven years lower life expectancy at birth than the non-Indigenous population (76.2 vs. 83.2 years). The differential at age 60 is 6 years (20.3 vs. 26.4 years). We also found...
Our results ratify the existence of marked ethnic-racial inequality in the extension of life in Chile and demonstrate a greater disadvantage in terms of survival of the Mapuche compared to other Indig...
To determine whether life expectancy (LE) changes between 2000 and 2019 were associated with race, rural status, local economic prosperity, and changes in local economic prosperity, at the county leve...
Between 12/1/22 and 2/28/23, we conducted a retrospective analysis of 2000 and 2019 data from 3,123 United States counties. For Total, White, and Black populations, we compared LE changes for counties...
In both years, overall, across the rural-urban continuum, and for all studied populations, LE decreased with each progression from the most to least prosperous quintile (all...
At the county level, race, rurality, and local economic distress were all associated with LE; improvements in local economic conditions were associated with accelerated LE. Policymakers should appreci...
Exploring global differences in life expectancy can facilitate the development of strategies to narrow regional disparities. However, few researchers have systematically examined patterns in the evolu...
National projections of life expectancy are made periodically by statistical offices or actuarial societies in Europe and are widely used, amongst others for reforms of pension systems. However, these...
We used a three-layer Li and Lee model with data from neighboring countries to complement Dutch time series....
Our results point at further increases of life expectancy between age 35 and 85 and of remaining life expectancy at age 35 and age 65, for all education groups in the Netherlands. The projected increa...
The educational inequalities in life expectancy are expected to persist or slightly increase for both men and women. The persistence and possible increase of inequalities in life expectancy between th...
Life expectancy is a key measure of overall population health. Life expectancy estimates for youth with HIV in the US are needed in the current HIV care and treatment context to guide health policies ...
To compare life expectancy between 18-year-old youth with perinatally acquired HIV (PHIV), youth with nonperinatally acquired HIV (NPHIV), and youth without HIV....
Using a US-focused adolescent-specific Monte Carlo state-transition HIV model, we simulated individuals from age 18 years until death. We estimated probabilities of HIV treatment and care engagement, ...
HIV status by timing of acquisition....
Life expectancy loss for youth with PHIV and youth with NPHIV: difference between mean projected life expectancy under current and ideal HIV care scenarios compared with youth without HIV. Uncertainty...
Compared with youth without HIV (life expectancy: male, 76.3 years; female, 81.7 years), male youth with PHIV and youth with NPHIV had projected life expectancy losses of 10.4 years (95% CI, 5.5-18.1)...
This adolescent-focused microsimulation modeling analysis projected that youth with HIV would have shorter life expectancy than youth without HIV. Projected differences were larger for youth with NPHI...
Schizophrenia is associated with a wide range of socioeconomic and health-related problems, as well as 10-25 potential life-years lost. While lifestyle choices, comorbidities, and choice of medication...
In this study, register-based, nationwide data from patients with schizophrenia in Finland during 1972-2015 were analysed to determine influential factors associated with mortality and to demonstrate ...
Factors reducing all-cause mortality were use of antipsychotics: HR 0.46 (95 % CI: 0.45, 0.47), ever use of lipid-modifying agents: HR 0.71 (95 % CI 0.68, 0.73), antidepressants HR 0.87 (95 % CI 0.85,...
The results from this study could serve to motivate clinicians to support and encourage patients to adhere to antipsychotic treatment and achieve a healthier lifestyle, which could, in turn, increase ...
The median survival time of newly-diagnosed MS patients without severe disabilities is approximately 30-35 years. The prognosis after the onset of severe disability has not been reported. Based on Har...