ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2016
Assessing morbidity compression in two cohorts from the Health and Retirement Study.
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- Self-health assessments in Saudi Arabia: Directions for an integrated primary healthcare.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Changes in Life Expectancy and Disability-Free Life Expectancy in Successive Birth Cohorts of Older Cancer Survivors: A Longitudinal Modeling Analysis of the US Health and Retirement Study.American journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
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- Morbidity compression or expansion? A temporal analysis of the age at onset of non-communicable diseases in India.GeroScience · 2021Article
- Healing, surviving, or dying? - projecting the German future disease burden using a Markov illness-death model.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Change in quality of life over eight years in a nationally representative sample of US adults with heart disease and type 2 diabetes:minority race and toxic stress as keysocial determinants.BMC public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundIncreases in life expectancy are hypothesised to be associated with shorter proportional time spent with morbidity (compression of morbidity). We assessed whether this has occurred among older adults in the USA during the 1990s and 2000s.
methodsWe used data from the Health and Retirement Study to estimate a morbidity score based on eight chronic conditions and compare it (1) prospectively between two age-matched cohorts in 1992 and 2004 over a 6-year follow-up, and (2) retrospectively in the three waves prior to death among respondents who die in (1998-2004) and (2004-2010).
resultsProspective assessment shows significantly higher prevalence in 6 of eight chronic conditions in the 2000s, with 37% higher diabetes prevalence. A retrospective evaluation shows significantly higher prevalence in 7 of eight chronic conditions in the three waves prior to death for (2004-2010) versus (1998-2004), with 41% higher prevalence of arthritis. Importantly, the farther away from time of death, the higher the average number of chronic conditions in (2004-2010).
conclusionsUsing the largest longitudinal ageing study in the USA, we found no clear evidence of compression of morbidity as measured by self-reported chronic disease. Older adults in the USA may be experiencing greater disease burden in recent times.
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