Relation between trends in late middle age mortality and trends in old age mortality - Is there evidence for mortality selection?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 775-781

  Janssen, F ^a   Peeters, A ^a,b   Mackenbach, J P ^a   Kunst, A E ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; CAUSE OF DEATH; ELDERLY POPULATION; MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; FRANCE; HUMAN; INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NORWAY; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 23844470598     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2004.028407     Document Type: Article

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