“Time-varying effects of socio-demographic and economic factors on the use of institutional long-term care before dementia-related death: A Finnish register-based study,” by Kaarina Korhonen, Elina Einiö, Taina Leinonen, Lasse Tarkiainen, and Pekka Martikainen (PLoS ONE 13(6): e0199551. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199551, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 16p.).
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0199551
“Changing trends in mortality in England and Wales: 1990 to 2017 (Experimental Statistics),” (June 2018, .pdf and HTML format, 24p.).
“Revisiting the association of blood pressure with mortality in oldest old people in China: community based, longitudinal prospective study,” by Yue-Bin Lv, Xiang Gao, Zhao-Xue Yin, Hua-Shuai Chen, Jie-Si Luo, Melanie Sereny Brasher, Virginia Byers Kraus, Tian-Tian Li, Yi Zeng, and Xiao-Ming Shi (Vol. 361, No. 8156, June 9, 2018, BMJ 2018;361:k2158).
www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k2158
“Adequate life-expectancy reconstruction for adult human mortality data,” by Laszlo Nemeth and Trifon I. Missov (PLoS ONE 13(6): e0198485. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198485, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 8p.).
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0198485
– Switzerland revised and updated through 2016 (May 25, 2018).
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data access:
– USA revised and updated through 2016 (May 23, 2018).
– Croatia revised and updated through 2016 (May 23, 2018).
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data access:
Links to an abstract are available. For full text availability check your organization’s library.
A. “Pauvreté, Egalité, Mortalité: Mortality (In)Equality in France and the United States,” by Janet Currie, Hannes Schwandt, and Josselin Thuilliez (w24623, May 2018, .pdf format, 46p.).
B. “Changes in Nutrient Intake at Retirement,” by Melvin Stephens Jr. and Desmond Toohey (w24621, May 2018, .pdf format, 47p.).
C. “Early Social Security Claiming and Old-Age Poverty: Evidence from the Introduction of the Social Security Early Eligibility Age,” by Gary V. Engelhardt, Jonathan Gruber, and Anil Kumar (w24609, May 2018, .pdf format, 52p.).
D. “Long-run Trends in the Economic Activity of Older People in the UK,” by James Banks, Carl Emmerson, and Gemma Tetlow (w24606, May 2018, .pdf format, 30p.).
E. “Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Japan,” by Takashi Oshio, Emiko Usui, and Satoshi Shimizutani (w24614, May 2018, .pdf format, 22p.).
A. “Adult height and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study (JPHC),” by Hikaru Ihira, Norie Sawada, Motoki Iwasaki, Taiki Yamaji, Atsushi Goto, Mitsuhiko Noda, Hiroyasu Iso, and Shoichiro Tsugane, the JPHC Study Group (PLoS ONE 13(5): e0197164. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197164, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 14p.).
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0197164
B. “Effects of computer-assisted navigation versus conventional total knee arthroplasty on the levels of inflammation markers: A prospective study,” by Shu-Jui Kuo, Horng-Chaung Hsu, Ching-Jen Wang, Ka-Kit Siu, Ya-Hung Hsu, Jih-Yang Ko, and Chih-Hsin Tang (PLoS ONE 13(5): e0197164. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197164, HTML, XML, and .pdf format, 10p.).
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0197097
– Netherlands revised and updated through 2016 (May 11, 2018).
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data access:
“Deaths from Falls Among Persons Aged > 65 Years — United States, 2007–2016,” by Elizabeth Burns and Ramakrishna Kakara (Vol. 67, No. 18, May 11, 2018, HTML and .pdf format, p. 509-514).
– UK countries: England & Wales (Civic & Total), Northern Ireland, Scotland, revised and updated through 2016 (May 7, 2018)
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data access:
– Belarus revised and updated through 2016 (May 4, 2018)
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data access:
– Denmark revised and updated through 2016 – April 23, 2018.
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data access:
Links to an abstract are available. For full text availability check your organization’s library. “The Impact of New Drug Launches on Life-Years Lost in 2015 from 19 Types of Cancer in 36 Countries,” by Frank R. Lichtenberg (w24536, April 2018, .pdf format, 46p.).
“Mortality by Career-Average Earnings Level,” by Tiffany Bosley, Michael Morris, and Karen Glenn (Actuarial Study No. 124, April 2018, .pdf format, 33p.).
– Japan revised and updated through 2016 (March 31, 2018).
– Iceland revised and updated through 2016 (March 30, 2018).
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data access:
“Association of a Negative Wealth Shock With All-Cause Mortality in Middle-aged and Older Adults in the United States,” by Lindsay R. Pool, Sarah A. Burgard, Belinda L. Needham, Michael R. Elliott, Kenneth M. Langa, and Carlos F. Mendes de Leon (Vol. 319, No. 13, April 3, 2018, p. 1341-1350).
– Czechia revised and updated through 2016 (February 23, 2018).
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data Access:
“Do the effects of major risk factors for mortality rise or fall with age?” by Neil Mehta and Hui Zheng (PSC Research Report No. 18-888, February 2018, .pdf format, 25p.). Note: Links to the abstract and the full text of the paper available at:
“The increasing mortality advantage of the married: The role played by education,” by Oystein Kravdal, Emily Grundy, and Katherine Keenan (Vol. 38, Article 20, January 2018, .pdf format, p. 471-512).
“The role of obesity in exceptionally slow US mortality improvement,” by Samuel H. Preston, Yana C. Vierboom and Andrew Stokes (Vol. 115, No. 5, January 30, 2018, p. 957-961).
“A network approach to studying cause-of-death interrelations,” by Viviana Egidi, Michele Antonio Salvatore, Giulia Rivellini, and Silvia D’Angelo (Vol. 38, No. 16, January 2018, .pdf format, p. 373-400).
“Cause of death patterns and people’s use of aged care: a Pathways in Aged Care analysis of 2012–14 death statistics,” (January 2018, .pdf format, 50p.).
“Mortality in the United States, 2016,” by Kenneth D. Kochanek, Sherry L. Murphy, Jiaquan Xu, and Elizabeth Arias (Data Brief No. 293, December 2017, .pdf and HTML format, 8p.).
Note: The link below is to the table of contents for the current issue of JAMA (Vol. 318, No. 24, December 26, 2017). Check with your organization’s information center for availability.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/issue/318/24
“Association of Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution With Mortality in Older Adults,” by Qian Di, Lingzhen Dai, Yun Wang, Antonella Zanobetti, Christine Choirat, Joel D. Schwartz, and Francesca Dominici (p. 2446-2456).
“Association Between Calcium or Vitamin D Supplementation and Fracture Incidence in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis,” by Jia-Guo Zhao, Xian-Tie Zeng, Jia Wang, and Lin Liu (p. 2466-2482).
Note: The link below is to the table of contents for the current issue of JAMA (Vol. 318, No. 21, December 5, 2017). Check with your organization’s information center for availability.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/issue/318/21
“Association Between Treatment by Locum Tenens Internal Medicine Physicians and 30-Day Mortality Among Hospitalized Medicare Beneficiaries,” by Daniel M. Blumenthal, Andrew R. Olenski, Yusuke Tsugawa, and Anupam B. Jena (p. 2119-2129).
A. “Deaths: Final Data for 2015,” by Sherry L. Murphy, Jiaquan Xu, Kenneth D. Kochanek, Sally C. Curtin, and Elizabeth Arias (National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 66, No. 6, November 27, 2017, .pdf format, 73p.).
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr66/nvsr66_06.pdf
B. “Deaths: Leading Causes for 2015,” by Melonie Heron (National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 66, No. 5, November 27, 2017, .pdf format, 75p.).
– Estonia revised and updated through 2014 (October 26, 2017)
– Latvia revised and updated through 2014 (October 26, 2017)
– Lithuania revised and updated through 2014 (October 26, 2017)
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data access:
A. “Trends in hospitalisations due to falls by older people, Australia 2002–03 to 2012–13,” (October 2017, .pdf format, 110p.).
B. “Trends in injury deaths, Australia 1999–00 to 2011–12,” (October 2017, .pdf format, 184p.).
Note: The link below is to the table of contents for the current issue of JAMA (Vol. 318, No. 15, October 17, 2017). Check with your organization’s information center for availability.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/issue/318/15
“Effect of Systematic Intensive Care Unit Triage on Long-term Mortality Among Critically Ill Elderly Patients in France: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” by Bertrand Guidet, Guillaume Leblanc, Tabassome Simon, Maguy Woimant, Jean-Pierre Quenot, Olivier Ganansia, Maxime Maignan, Youri Yordanov, Samuel Delerme, Benoit Doumenc, Muriel Fartoukh, Pierre Charestan, Pauline Trognon, Bertrand Galichon, Nicolas Javaud, Anabela Patzak, Maitr Garrouste-Orgeas, Caroline Thomas, Sylvie Azerad, Dominique Pateron, and Ariane Boumendil, for the ICE-CUB 2 Study Network (p. 1450-1459).
– UK countries: England & Wales (Civic & Total), Northern Ireland, Scotland, revised and updated through 2014. (Oct. 13, 2017).
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data access:
A. “The 21st century mortality files – deaths dataset, England and Wales,” (October 2017, Excel format).
B. “The 21st century mortality files – population dataset, England and Wales,” (October 2017, Excel format).
– Sweden revised and updated through 2016 (Oct. 11, 2017).
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data access:
WHO updated the following files in (.zipped compressed ASCII format, with documentation in .pdf, Word or Microsoft Excel format) it’s Mortality Database on October 1, 2017: Documentation, Availability, Notes, Population and live births, and Mortality ICD-10 (this file comes in two parts).
“What’s Happening to U.S. Mortality Rates?” by Anqi Chen, Alicia H. Munnell, and Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher (IB No. 17-17, September 2017, .pdf format, 13p.).
A. “High use of acute care hospital services at age 50 or older,” by Michelle Rotermann (Health Reports, Vol. 29, No. 8, September 2017, .pdf and HTML format, 3-16p.).
www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2017009/article/54855-eng.htm
B. “Nutritional risk, hospitalization and mortality among community-dwelling Canadians aged 65 or older,” by Pamela L. Ramage-Morin, Heather Gilmour and Michelle Rotermann (Health Reports, Vol. 29, No. 8, September 2017, .pdf and HTML format, p. 17-27).
www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2017009/article/54856-eng.htm
Note: The link below is to the table of contents for the current issue of JAMA (Vol. 318, No. 10, September 12, 2017). Check with your organization’s information center for availability.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/issue/318/10
“Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Long-term All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: The Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Trials,” by JoAnn E. Manson, Aaron K. Aragaki, Jacques E. Rossouw, Garnet L. Anderson, Ross L. Prentice, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Rowan T. Chlebowski, Barbara V. Howard, Cynthia A. Thomson, Karen L. Margolis, Cora E. Lewis, Marcia L. Stefanick, Rebecca D. Jackson, Karen C. Johnson, Lisa W. Martin, Sally A. Shumaker, Mark A. Espeland, and Jean Wactawski-Wende, for the WHI Investigators (p. 927-938).
– Data for Italy were revised and updated through 2014 (August 28, 2017).
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data access:
Note: The link below is to the table of contents for the current issue of JAMA (Vol. 318, No. 3, July 18, 2017). Check with your organization’s information center for availability.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/issue/318/3
A. “Association of Changing Hospital Readmission Rates With Mortality Rates After Hospital Discharge,” by Kumar Dharmarajan, Yongfei Wang, Zhenqiu Lin, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Joseph S. Ross, Leora I. Horwitz, Nihar R. Desai, Lisa G. Suter, Elizabeth E. Drye, Susannah M. Bernheim, and Harlan M. Krumholz (p. 270-278).
B. “Associations of Weight Gain From Early to Middle Adulthood With Major Health Outcomes Later in Life,” by Yan Zheng, JoAnn E. Manson, Changzheng Yuan, Matthew H. Liang, Francine Grodstein, Meir J. Stampfer, Walter C. Willett, and Frank B. Hu (p. 255-269).
Links to an abstract are available. For full text availability check your organization’s library. “The Methuselah Effect: The Pernicious Impact of Unreported Deaths on Old Age Mortality Estimates,” by Dan A. Black, Yu-Chieh Hsu, Seth G. Sanders, Lynne Steuerle Schofield, and Lowell J. Taylor (w23574, July 2017, .pdf format, 45p.).
“Mortality: Overview, 2012 and 2013,” by Andre Lebel and Stacey Hallman (Report on the Demographic Situation in Canada, July 2017, .pdf and HTML format, 15p.).
www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-209-x/2017001/article/14793-eng.htm
A. “Poor caregiver mental health predicts mortality of patients with neurodegenerative disease,” by Sandy J. Lwi, Brett Q. Ford, James J. Casey, Bruce L. Miller, and Robert W. Levenson (Vol. 118, No. 28, July 11, 2017, p. 7319-7324).
www.pnas.org/content/114/28/7319.abstract
B. “Protein homeostasis of a metastable subproteome associated with Alzheimer’s disease,” by Rishika Kundra, Prajwal Ciryam, Richard I. Morimoto, Christopher M. Dobson, and Michele Vendruscolo (Vol. 118, No. 28, July 11, 2017, p. E5703-E5711).
A. “Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population,” by Qian Di, Yan Wang, Antonella Zanobetti, Yun Wang, Petros Koutrakis, Christine Choirat, Francesca Dominici, and Joel D. Schwartz (Vol. 376, No. 26, June 30, 2017, p. 2513-2522).
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1702747#t=abstract
B. “Thyroid Hormone Therapy for Older Adults with Subclinical Hypothyroidism,” by David J. Stott, Nicolas Rodondi, Patricia M. Kearney, Ian Ford, Rudi G.J. Westendorp, Simon P. Mooijaart, Naveed Sattar, Carole E. Aubert, Drahomir Aujesky, Douglas C. Bauer, Christine Baumgartner, Manuel R. Blum, John P. Browne, Stephen Byrne, Tinh-Hai Collet, Olaf M. Dekkers, Wendy P.J. den Elzen, Robert S. Du Puy, Graham Ellis, Martin Feller, Carmen Floriani, Kirsty Hendry, Caroline Hurley, J. Wouter Jukema, Sharon Kean, Maria Kelly, Danielle Krebs, Peter Langhorne, Gemma McCarthy, Vera McCarthy, Alex McConnachie, Mairi McDade, Martina Messow, Annemarie O’Flynn, David O’Riordan, Rosalinde K.E. Poortvliet, Terence J Quinn, Audrey Russell, Carol Sinnott, Jan W.A. Smit, H. Anette Van Dorland, Kieran A. Walsh, M.Pharm., Elaine K. Walsh, Torquil Watt, Robbie Wilson, and Jacobijn Gussekloo, for the TRUST Study Group (Vol. 376, No. 26, June 30, 2017, p. 2534-2544).
“The Impact of Obesity on Adult Mortality: Assessment of Estimates with Applications,” by Alberto Palloni and Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez (WR-1193, May 2017, .pdf format. 26p.). Note: Links to the abstract and the full text of the paper available at:
Links to an abstract are available. For full text availability check your organization’s library.
A. “The Shock of Falling Among Older Americans,” by Inas Rashad Kelly (w23517, June 2017, .pdf format, 47p.).
B. “High School Genetic Diversity and Later-life Student Outcomes: Micro-level Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study,” by C. Justin Cook and Jason M. Fletcher (w25320, June 2017, .pdf format, 37p.).
C. “Mortality Inequality in Canada and the U.S.: Divergent or Convergent Trends?” by Michael Baker, Janet Currie, and Hannes Schwandt (w25314, June 2017, .pdf format, 48p.).
“Healthy life expectancy, mortality, and the age prevalence of morbidity,” by Timothy Riffe, Alyson van Raalte, and Maarten J. Bijlsma (WP-2017-015, May 2017, .pdf format, 22p.).
Note: The link below is to the table of contents for the current issue of JAMA (Vol. 317, No. 20, May 23/30, 2017). Check with your organization’s information center for availability.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/issue/317/20
“Association Between Teaching Status and Mortality in US Hospitals,” by Laura G. Burke, Austin B. Frakt, Dhruv Khullar, E. John Orav, and Ashish K. Jha (p. 2105-2113).
“The Impact of College Education on Old-Age Mortality: A Study of Marginal Treatment Effects,” by Evan Taylor (17-30, March 2017, .pdf format, 54p.). Note: Links to the abstract and the full text of the paper available at:
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