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
Materias:	Sex differences in mortality Heterogeneity Middle-aged persons Mortality > Mathematical models Statistics on mortality of older people
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