Mortality at old age in the Nordic countries

Onset of mortality increase with age and age trajectories of mortality from all diseases in the four Nordic countries

BACKGROUND The answer to the question "At what age does aging begin?" is tightly related to the question "Where is the onset of mortality increase with age?" Age affects mortality rates from all diseases differently than it affects mortality rates from nonbiological causes. Mortality increase with age in adult populations has been modeled by many authors, and little attention has been given to ...

Social Inequality in Mortality in the Nordic Countries

APL in the Nordic Countries

After serving one year in the army, he transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a flight engineer specializing in reconnaissance. During his service, he took advantage of the Canadian Legion's offer of correspondence education and almost finished high school. He enjoyed teaching his service mates mathematics, and when he left the service it was with a promise to his counsellors...

Evaluation in the Nordic Countries

Evaluation in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden varies substantially with regard to how well developed it is, as well as in the extent to which it is used. However, in all these countries evaluation has been developed within the public sector, whereas evaluation as a separate field of research and study hardly exists. This is to some extent changing with the establishm...

Large common deletions associate with mortality at old age.

Copy-number variants (CNVs) are a source of genetic variation that increasingly are associated with human disease. However, the role of CNVs in human lifespan is to date unknown. To identify CNVs that influence mortality at old age, we analyzed genome-wide CNV data in 5178 participants of Rotterdam Study (RS1) and positive findings were evaluated in 1714 participants of the second cohort of the...