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Morbidity compression in myocardial infarction 2006 to 2015 in terms of changing rates and age at occurrence: A longitudinal study using claims data from Germany

BACKGROUND: According to James Fries morbidity compression is present if morbidity rates are decreasing to a larger extent than mortality rates. Compression also occurs if age at onset is increasing at a faster pace than age at death. These two variants of the compression hypothesis were formulated...

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Autores principales: Geyer, Siegfried, Eberhard, Sveja, Schmidt, Bernhard Magnus W., Epping, Jelena, Tetzlaff, Juliane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6107226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30138437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202631