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Changes and Variations in Death Due to Senility in Japan

Objective: The proportion of elderly individuals (≥65 years old) in Japan has markedly increased. However, the definition of senility in Japan is controversial. The aim of the present study was to investigate changes and variations in the number of deaths due to senility in Japan. Methods: Informati...

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Autores principales: Bando, Masaki, Miyatake, Nobuyuki, Kataoka, Hiroaki, Kinoshita, Hiroshi, Tanaka, Naoko, Suzuki, Hiromi, Katayama, Akihiko
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33143049
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8040443
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author Bando, Masaki
Miyatake, Nobuyuki
Kataoka, Hiroaki
Kinoshita, Hiroshi
Tanaka, Naoko
Suzuki, Hiromi
Katayama, Akihiko
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Miyatake, Nobuyuki
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Kinoshita, Hiroshi
Tanaka, Naoko
Suzuki, Hiromi
Katayama, Akihiko
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description Objective: The proportion of elderly individuals (≥65 years old) in Japan has markedly increased. However, the definition of senility in Japan is controversial. The aim of the present study was to investigate changes and variations in the number of deaths due to senility in Japan. Methods: Information on the number of deaths due to senility between 1995 and 2018 as well as other major causes of death was obtained from the Statistics Bureau of Japan official website. Changes and variations in the number of deaths due to senility were compared with other major causes of death in Japan. The relationships between the number of deaths due to senility and socioeconomic factors were also examined in an ecological study. Results: The number of deaths due to senility was 35.7 ± 23.2/one hundred thousand people/year during the observation period and has continued to increase. A change point was identified in 2004 by a Jointpoint regression analysis. Variations in the number of deaths due to senility, which were evaluated by a coefficient of variation, were significantly greater than those due to other major causes of death, i.e., malignant neoplasm, heart diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, and pneumonia. The number of elderly individuals (≥65 years old) (%) and medical bills per elderly subject (≥75 years old) correlated with the number of deaths due to senility. Conclusion: The number of deaths due to senility has been increasing, particularly since 2004. However, variations in the number of deaths due to senility were observed among all prefectures in Japan.
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spelling pubmed-77120132020-12-04 Changes and Variations in Death Due to Senility in Japan Bando, Masaki Miyatake, Nobuyuki Kataoka, Hiroaki Kinoshita, Hiroshi Tanaka, Naoko Suzuki, Hiromi Katayama, Akihiko Healthcare (Basel) Article Objective: The proportion of elderly individuals (≥65 years old) in Japan has markedly increased. However, the definition of senility in Japan is controversial. The aim of the present study was to investigate changes and variations in the number of deaths due to senility in Japan. Methods: Information on the number of deaths due to senility between 1995 and 2018 as well as other major causes of death was obtained from the Statistics Bureau of Japan official website. Changes and variations in the number of deaths due to senility were compared with other major causes of death in Japan. The relationships between the number of deaths due to senility and socioeconomic factors were also examined in an ecological study. Results: The number of deaths due to senility was 35.7 ± 23.2/one hundred thousand people/year during the observation period and has continued to increase. A change point was identified in 2004 by a Jointpoint regression analysis. Variations in the number of deaths due to senility, which were evaluated by a coefficient of variation, were significantly greater than those due to other major causes of death, i.e., malignant neoplasm, heart diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, and pneumonia. The number of elderly individuals (≥65 years old) (%) and medical bills per elderly subject (≥75 years old) correlated with the number of deaths due to senility. Conclusion: The number of deaths due to senility has been increasing, particularly since 2004. However, variations in the number of deaths due to senility were observed among all prefectures in Japan. MDPI 2020-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7712013/ /pubmed/33143049 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8040443 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Changes and Variations in Death Due to Senility in Japan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712013/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8040443
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