Sex differential in mortality trends of old-aged Danes: a nation wide study of age, period and cohort effects

Objective Over the last half century the mortality rates in Denmark for females above age 80 have declined dramatically whereas the decline for males have been modest, resulting in a change in sex-ratio for centenarians from 2 to 5. Here we investigate whether this mortality pattern is mainly explai...

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Autores principales: Jacobsen, Rune, Oksuzyan, Anna, Engberg, Henriette, Jeune, Bernard, Vaupel, James W., Christensen, Kaare
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2008
Materias:
Mortality
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18839318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-008-9288-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18839318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-008-9288-5

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