Mortality Increase in Late-Middle and Early-Old Age: Heterogeneity in Death Processes as a New Explanation.

Deviations from the Gompertz law of exponential mortality increases in late-middle and early-old age are commonly neglected in overall mortality analyses. In this study, we examined mortality increase patterns between ages 40 and 85 in 16 low-mortality countries and demonstrated sex differences in t...

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Publicado en:Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 1563 - 1592
Autores principales: Li, Ting, Yang, Yang, Anderson, James
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2013
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          Center for Population and Development Studies, Renmin University of China, No. 59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District Beijing 100872 China
          Carolina Population Center, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill USA
          Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology and School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle USA
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        Sex differences in mortality
        Heterogeneity
        Middle-aged persons
        Mortality -- Mathematical models
        Statistics on mortality of older people
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          Heterogeneity
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        Mortality acceleration
        Sex differences
        Two-mortality processes
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        Mortality acceleration
        Sex differences
        Two-mortality processes
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      ab: Deviations from the Gompertz law of exponential mortality increases in late-middle and early-old age are commonly neglected in overall mortality analyses. In this study, we examined mortality increase patterns between ages 40 and 85 in 16 low-mortality countries and demonstrated sex differences in these patterns, which also changed across period and cohort. These results suggest that the interaction between aging and death is more complicated than what is usually assumed from the Gompertz law and also challenge existing biodemographic hypotheses about the origin and mechanisms of sex differences in mortality. We propose a two-mortality model that explains these patterns as the change in the composition of intrinsic and extrinsic death rates with age. We show that the age pattern of overall mortality and the population heterogeneity therein are possibly generated by multiple dynamics specified by a two-mortality model instead of a uniform process throughout most adult ages.
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