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Predicting all-cause mortality with machine learning among Brazilians aged 50 and over: results from The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSI-Brazil).

Felipe Mendes Delpino, Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto Filho, Juliana Lustosa Torres, Fabíola Bof de Andrade, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, Bruno Pereira Nunes

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Article in npj aging, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Felipe Mendes DelpinoPostgraduate Program in Nursing, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. fmdsocial@outlook.com.
Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto FilhoSchool of Public Health, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Juliana Lustosa TorresDepartment of Preventive and Social Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Fabíola Bof de AndradePostgraduate Program, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, René Rachou Institute, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Maria Fernanda Lima-CostaCenter for Studies in Public Health and Aging (NESPE), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz e Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Bruno Pereira NunesPostgraduate Program in Nursing, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We aimed to develop a machine-learning model to predict all-cause mortality among Brazilians aged 50 and over, incorporating demographic, health, and lifestyle characteristics as predictors. We analyzed data from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil), waves 1 and 2 (2015-2021), a nationally representative sample from 70 municipalities across Brazil's five regions. Nine algorithms, including Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, XGBOOST, and Logistic Regression, were tested on 9412 participants (54.6% female), with 970 deaths recorded over approximately five years. Using 59 predictor variables, we assessed performance with metrics like AUC, accuracy, precision, and F1-Score. Random Forest excelled with an AUC of 0.92 (95% CI: 0.90-0.94). SHAP analysis highlighted age, sex, BMI, medication use, and physical activity as top predictors. Integrating these models into healthcare systems can improve policy planning and enable targeted interventions, ultimately fostering better health outcomes for aging populations.

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PMCPMC11953239

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