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The association between preventive health and outpatient spending and life expectancy by income quartile
BackgroundTo describe the relationship between longevity and local access to preventive healthcare at the county level.
MethodsWe used Medicare...
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Subnational estimates of life expectancy at birth in India: evidence from NFHS and SRS data
BackgroundMortality estimates at the subnational level are of urgent need in India for the formulation of policies and programmes at the district...
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The impact of quality-adjusted life years on evaluating COVID-19 mitigation strategies: lessons from age-specific vaccination roll-out and variants of concern in Belgium (2020-2022)
BackgroundWhen formulating and evaluating COVID-19 vaccination strategies, an emphasis has been placed on preventing severe disease that overburdens...
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Impact of type 2 diabetes on life expectancy and role of kidney disease among inpatients with heart failure in Switzerland: an ambispective cohort study
BackgroundType 2 diabetes (T2D) is expected to worsen the prognosis of inpatients with heart failure (HF) but the evidence from observational studies...
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Influence of poor sleep on cardiovascular disease-free life expectancy: a multi-resource-based population cohort study
BackgroundThe complexity of sleep hinders the formulation of sleep guidelines. Recent studies suggest that different unhealthy sleep characteristics...
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Willingness to Pay for One Additional Quality Adjusted Life Year: A Population Based Survey from China
ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to estimate the population’s willingness to pay (WTP) for an additional quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) in China.
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Sexual harassment and implicit gender-career biases negatively impact women’s life expectancy in the US: a state-level analysis, 2011–2019
BackgroundDespite some gains, women continue to have less access to work and poorer experiences in the workplace, relative to men. The purpose of...
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Physical activity attenuated the negative effects of obesity on chronic disease-free life expectancy in rural adults
AimThis study aimed to estimate the chronic disease-free life expectancy (CDFLE) for distinct joint phenotypes of physical activity and obesity...
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Life Expectancy in Pre-Frail and Frail States with and without Disability: 18-Years of Follow-Up Data from the HEPESE Study Using the Markov Chain Method
We estimated the total life expectancy (TLE), frailty-free life expectancy (FFLE), frail life expectancy (FLE), pre-frail life expectancy (PFLE), and...
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Effects of family multi-generational relationship on multimorbidity and healthy life expectancy for second generations: insight from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
ObjectiveIn the context of aging, Chinese families consisting of more than three generations (grandparents, parents, children) are the norm. The...
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Impact of COVID-19 on subnational variations in life expectancy and life disparity at birth in India: evidence from NFHS and SRS data
BackgroundMeasuring life expectancy and life disparity can assist in comprehending how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the mortality estimates in...
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Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) based COVID-19 health impact assessment: a systematic review
BackgroundThe emergence of COVID-19 has resulted in health, socio-economic, and political crises. The overall health impact of this disease can be...
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Healthy lifestyle in older adults and life expectancy with and without heart failure
Several lifestyle factors have been linked to risk for heart failure (HF) and premature mortality. The aim of this study was to estimate the impact...
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Using Patient Preferences in Health Technology Assessment: Evaluating Quality-Adjusted Survival Equivalents (QASE) for the Quantification of Non-health Benefits
Interest in using patient preference (PP) data alongside traditional economic models in health technology assessment (HTA) is growing, including...
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Income and rural–urban status moderate the association between income inequality and life expectancy in US census tracts
BackgroundA preponderance of evidence suggests that higher income inequality is associated with poorer population health, yet recent research...
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Focus on disability-free life expectancy: implications for health-related quality of life
BackgroundSince the end of the industrial revolution, advances in public health and clinical medicine have contributed to dramatic decreases in...
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Transarterial Radioembolization Versus Atezolizumab–Bevacizumab in Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Matching-Adjusted Indirect Comparison of Time to Deterioration in Quality of Life
IntroductionGiven the relatively short life expectancy of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), quality of life (QOL) plays a significant...
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Association of cardiovascular health with diabetic complications, all-cause mortality, and life expectancy among people with type 2 diabetes
BackgroundWe aimed to assess the impact of healthy cardiovascular health (CVH) on diabetic complications, mortality, and life expectancy among people...
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Pulmonary Function and Quality of Life in Adults with Cystic Fibrosis
PurposePeople living with cystic fibrosis (CF) experience impaired quality of life, but the extent to which pulmonary function is associated with...
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Age estimation from sleep studies using deep learning predicts life expectancy
Sleep disturbances increase with age and are predictors of mortality. Here, we present deep neural networks that estimate age and mortality risk...
