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Mind the gaps: age and cause specific mortality and life expectancy in the older population of South Korea and Japan
BACKGROUND: Recent life expectancy gains in high-income Asia-pacific countries have been largely the result of postponement of death from non-communicable diseases in old age, causing rapid demographic ageing. This study compared and quantified age- and cause-specific contributions to changes in old...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268756/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32487053 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08978-x |