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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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Autores principales: Jung, Myunggu, Ko, Woorim, Muhwava, William, Choi, Yeohee, Kim, Hanna, Park, Young Su, Jambere, Gizachew Balew, Cho, Youngtae
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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