Sex differential in mortality trends of old-aged Danes: A nation wide study of age, period and cohort effects

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 723-730

  Jacobsen, Rune ^a   Oksuzyan, Anna ^a,b   Engberg, Henriette ^a   Jeune, Bernard ^a   Vaupel, James W ^b   Christensen, Kaare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age period cohort modeling; Denmark; Old age mortality; Sex differential

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 57649184050     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-008-9288-5     Document Type: Article

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