Obesity and Trends in Life Expectancy

Obesity and Trends in Life Expectancy

Background. Increasing levels of obesity over recent decades have been expected to lead to an epidemic of diabetes and a subsequent reduction in life expectancy, but instead all-cause and cardiovascular-specific mortality rates have decreased steadily in most developed countries and life expectancy has increased. Methods. This paper suggests several factors that may be masking the effects of ob...

Trends in senescent life expectancy.

The distinction between senescent and non-senescent mortality proves to be very valuable for describing and analysing age patterns of death rates. Unfortunately, standard methods for estimating these mortality components are lacking. The first part of this paper discusses alternative methods for estimating background and senescent mortality among adults and proposes a simple approach based on d...

Trends in Working Life Expectancy in Europe.

OBJECTIVE The aim of the article is to analyze past and present developments of working life expectancy (WLE) at age 50 by age, sex, and education in Europe. WLE is also compared with life expectancy (LE) and healthy life expectancy (HLE). METHOD WLE is calculated with the Sullivan method. Labor force participation is based on the European Union (EU) Labor Force Survey. RESULTS WLE at age 5...

Life expectancy trends in Costa Rica.

This article presents an analysis of lzye expectancy trends in Costa Rica from the early 1970s to 1976. The methodology employed was developed with the help of the Latin American Center for Demography (CELADE). The findings obtained reveal that the average Costa Rican life span grew very rapidly in this period-a time when major efforts were being made to extend health sel-vices to underserved p...

Recent trends in provincial life expectancy.