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Role of Disease-Specific Incidence and Survival in Disparities in Life Expectancy in the United States

There are persisting geographic and racial disparities in life expectancy (LE) across the United States (US). We used 5% Medicare Claims data (2000-2017) to investigate how disease incidence and survival contribute to such disparities. Disease-specific hazard ratios (HRs) were calculated for Medicar...

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Autores principales: Kravchenko, Julia, Yu, Bin, Akushevich, Igor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8682481/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.571