Evidence-based life expectancy

Evidence-based life expectancy.

A large amount of research literature shows that persons with severe neurological injuries, whether from cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, or spinal cord injury, are subject to greater mortality rates than persons of the same age and sex in the general population. This is especially true when motor function is seriously impaired. It follows as a mathematical consequence that their life ex...

Life Expectancy

Methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy uncertainty analysis

The use of life expectancy in cancer screening guidelines. Moving with caution from model-based evidence to evidence-based guidelines.

A critical question in preventive medicine is at what age screening for cancer should stop. Mandelblatt et al. investigated this important issue for the case of mammography screening, using a Monte Carlo simulation model that included life expectancy as marker of physiologic age. They evaluated the cost-effectiveness of screening until age 70, until age 79, and with no upper age limit. Their si...

Longevity and life expectancy.

"In this article the evolution of life expectancy is examined historically for various European nations at various ages, and according to sex. Appropriate logistic equations describe the facts and extrapolate into the future giving the doctor an indication of what is still to be accomplished and the demographer the tools with which to evaluate the aging of European population in the next 20 yea...