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Global divergence in critical income for adult and childhood survival: analyses of mortality using Michaelis–Menten

Life expectancy has risen sharply in the last 50 years. We applied the classic Michaelis–Menten enzyme kinetics to demonstrate a novel mathematical relationship of income to childhood (aged 0–5 years) and adult (aged 15–60 years) survival. We treat income as a substrate that is catalyzed to increase...

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Autores principales: Hum, Ryan J, Jha, Prabhat, McGahan, Anita M, Cheng, Yu-Ling
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3510452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23240081
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00051