Correlation Among Different Variables and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy among non-high school graduates.

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Methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy uncertainty analysis

Life expectancy among elderly Brazilians in 2003 according to different levels of functional disability.

The aim of the present study was to estimate disability-free life expectancy for the Brazilian elderly in 2003, by gender and age, based on different concepts of functional disability. The Sullivan method is used to combine the period life tables from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE, 2003) and the prevalence of functional disability according to the 2003 National Sampl...

Differences in healthy life expectancy among men and women.

Obesity and life expectancy among long-lived Black adults.

BACKGROUND In samples of African Americans and the elderly adults, obesity is often not found to be a risk factor for mortality. These data contradict the evidence linking obesity to chronic disease in these groups. Our objective was to determine whether obesity remains a risk factor for mortality among long-lived black adults. METHODS The Adventist Health Study 2 is a large prospective cohor...