The effects of increasing longevity and changing incidence on lifetime risk differentials: A decomposition approach.

Increasing longevity can distort time trends in summary measures of health and mortality, such as the lifetime risk of getting diseased. If not observing a cohort, this lifetime risk is calculated with cross-sectional data on age-specific incidence and survival. In those instances, incidence and sur...

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Main Authors: Marcus Ebeling, Karin Modig, Anders Ahlbom, Roland Rau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5909551?pdf=render