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Stagnation in mortality decline among elders in The Netherlands
Author(s)	Fanny Janseen, Wilma J Nusselder, Caspar W N Looman
Corporate Author	NEDCOM - Netherlands Epidemiology and Demography Compression of Morbidity research group
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 43, no 5, October 2003
Pages	pp 722-734
Source	http://www.geron.org
Keywords	Death rate [statistics] ; Octogenarians ; Nonagenarians ; Tobacco smoking ; Longitudinal surveys ; Netherlands.
Annotation	Trends in cause-specific mortality in people aged 80+ in the Netherlands for the period 1950-1999 are analysed using poisson regression analysis. A sudden reversal of in old-age mortality decline occurred around 1980, leading to a stagnation of the decline and even increases in mortality thereafter. Smoking-related cancers and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease showed a cohort pattern, especially in men. When these smoking-related diseases were excluded, the trends in old-age mortality in the Netherlands showed an increased stagnation for both sexes. Smoking behaviour can only partly explain the stagnation of mortality. Other factors such as increased frailty and changes in medical and social services for older people probably played a more decisive role in the recent stagnation. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-040504217 A
Classmark	S5: BBM: BBR: ETT: 3J: 76H
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