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Disease prevalence, disease incidence, and mortality in the United States and in England
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S211–S231.
Published: 01 March 2010
...James Banks; Alastair Muriel; James P. Smith Abstract We find that both disease incidence and disease prevalence are higher among Americans in age groups 55–64 and 70–80, indicating that Americans suffer from higher past cumulative disease risk and experience higher immediate risk of new disease...
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Disease Incidence and Mortality Among Older Americans and Europeans
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 593–611.
Published: 26 February 2015
... determining international differences in the prevalence of chronic diseases. Higher prevalence of disease could result from either higher incidence or longer disease-specific survival. This article uses comparable longitudinal data from 2004 and 2006 for populations aged 50 to 79 from the United States...
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The DYNAMO-HIA Model: An Efficient Implementation of a Risk Factor/Chronic Disease Markov Model for Use in Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1259–1283.
Published: 10 October 2012
..., such as with a Markov model, in which exposure influences mortality and disease incidence rates. Because many risk factors are related to a variety of chronic diseases, these Markov models potentially contain a large number of states (risk factor and disease combinations), providing a challenge both technically...
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Early-Life Disease Exposure and Its Heterogeneous Effects on Mortality Throughout Life: Sweden, 1905–2016
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1187–1210.
Published: 01 August 2024
... high disease exposure in infancy, particularly for those born to unskilled workers. For males, we find no negative effect on later-life survival, likely because stronger mortality selection in infancy outweighs scarring. Thus, even as the incidence of infectious diseases declined at the start...
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A Social History of Disease: Contextualizing the Rise and Fall of Social Inequalities in Cause-Specific Mortality
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1631–1656.
Published: 16 August 2016
... available prevention and effective treatment. For illustration, we pair an ideal-types analysis with mortality data to explore hypothesized incidence rates of diseases. Although social inequalities exist in incidence rates of many diseases, the cause, extent, and direction of inequalities change...
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The Biodemography of Variation in Human Frailty
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Demography (1990) 27 (2): 185–206.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Kenneth M. Weiss Abstract A population is composed of individuals who are heterogeneous in their susceptibility to death and disease. This heterogeneity is reflected in the age-specific incidence or mortality (hazard) function. This variation has typically been hidden—that is, not measured directly...
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The effects of maternal employment on child injuries and infectious disease
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 307–333.
Published: 01 May 2007
... the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Estimates indicate that maternal employment itself has no statistically significant adverse effects on the incidence of infectious disease and injury. However, greater time spent by children in center-based care is associated with increased rates of respiratory problems...
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The exceptionally high life expectancy of Costa Rican nonagenarians
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 673–691.
Published: 01 August 2008
... the exceptionally high survival of elderly Costa Ricans, especially males. Comparisons with the United States and Sweden show that the Costa Rican advantage comes mostly from reduced incidence of cardiovascular diseases, coupled with a low prevalence of obesity, as the only available explanatory risk factor. Costa...
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Hispanic-White Differences in Lifespan Variability in the United States
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 215–239.
Published: 18 December 2015
...-transmitted diseases). We find evidence consistent with the LAMMP in the homicide allocation effect (Eschbach et al. 2007 ; Hayes-Bautista et al. 2002 ). Despite elevated homicide incidence among young Hispanic men at ages far below the mean age at death, the relatively small number of homicide deaths...
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The Impact of Parental Involvement Laws on the Abortion Rate of Minors
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 323–346.
Published: 06 February 2020
...Theodore J. Joyce; Robert Kaestner; Jason Ward Abstract In this article, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the effect of parental involvement (PI) laws on the incidence of abortions to minors in the United States. We contribute to the extant literature in several ways. First, we explore...
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Education and survival: Birth cohort, period, and age effects
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 551–561.
Published: 01 November 2001
... Liberatos , P. , Link , B.G. , & Kelsey , J.L. ( 1988 ). The Measurement of Social Class in Epidemiology . Epidemiologic Reviews , 10 , 87 – 121 . “The Lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention Trial Results. I. Reduction in Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease.” 1984a...
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The Life Course, Cohort Dynamics, and International Differences in Aging Trajectories
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2043–2071.
Published: 03 November 2017
... and explain the causes of these cohort dynamics. Given the central role of chronic disease in the broader disablement process, examining divergent intercohort trends in the upstream determinants of functional health trajectories, including shifts in chronic disease incidence and prevalence...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1897–1919.
Published: 03 August 2017
... ). National estimates of the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in the United States . Alzheimer’s & Dementia , 7 , 61 – 73 . Brookmeyer R. , & Gray S. ( 2000 ). Methods for projecting the incidence and prevalence of chronic diseases in ageing populations: Application to Alzheimer’s...
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Family Mortality in Guatemala
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Demography (1993) 30 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 February 1993
... in Epidemiological Studies of Familial Tendency in Chronic Disease Incidence.” . Biometrika , 65 , 141 – 51 . 10.1093/biomet/65.1.141 Cleland J. , & Van Ginneken J. ( 1988 ). “The Effect of Maternal Schooling on Childhood Mortality: The Search for an Explanation.” . Social Science...
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Estimation of Covariate Effects With Current Status Data and Differential Mortality
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 521–544.
Published: 18 November 2012
... that fertility, mortality, and the incidence of disease are all independent of time, and thus the timing of the survey is independent of all three processes. Fig. 1 State space and transition rates (at age x ) for the illness-death process If there is no mortality differential between those...
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Gender differences in the link between childhood socioeconomic conditions and heart attack risk in adulthood
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Demography (2007) 44 (1): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2007
... Factors to Social Variations in Coronary Heart Disease Incidence . Lancet , 350 , 235 – 39 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)04244-X Martin , R.M. , Ness , A.R. , Gunnell , D. , Emmett , P. , & Smith , G.D. ( 2004 ). Does Breast-Feeding in Infancy Lower Blood Pressure...
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How frailty models can be used for evaluating longevity limits: Taking advantage of an interdisciplinary approach
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 31–48.
Published: 01 February 1997
... ( 1978 ). ”A Model for Association in Bivariate Life Tables and Its Application in Epidemiological Studies of Familial Tendency in Chronic Disease Incidence.” . Biometrika , 65 , 141 – 51 . 10.1093/biomet/65.1.141 Clayton D.G. , & Cuzick J. ( 1985 ). “Multivariate...
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Was there compression of disability for older Americans from 1992 to 2003?
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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 479–495.
Published: 01 August 2007
... morbidity. Therefore, TLE and its components years spent with and without disability would likely increase over time. By implication, age at initial onset of disability would also increase. How these forces play out to affect longevity and disability depends on their speci c effects on disease incidence...
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The contribution of medical measures to the decline of mortality from respiratory tuberculosis: An ageperiod-cohort model
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Demography (1982) 19 (3): 409–427.
Published: 01 August 1982
... pattern of mortality, it would be useful to know what kinds of mortality incidences cause a distortion in the cohort pattern. Two conditions seem necessary to produce such a distortion. First the disease, injury, or conversely, life-saving intervention that affects mor- tality must be at least partially...
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Key themes in research on the demography of aging
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S5–S15.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... For example, Banks, Muriel, and Smith use data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the Health and Retirement S14 Demography, Volume 47 Supplement, 2010 Study to compare the prevalence and incidence of chronic disease and mortality rates for middle-aged and older adults in the two...
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