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Improved health may extend or shorten the duration of cognitive impairment by postponing incidence or death. We assess the duration of cognitive impairment in the US Health and Retirement Study (1992–2004) by self reported BMI, smoking and levels of education in men and women and three ethnic groups
This chapter presents the major principles of multistate demographic accounting developed by Philip Rees and extenddx by his team and others. It incorporates some aspects of multistate modelling in survival analysis.The account that results includes population flows, population stocks and durations
Increasing BMI causes concerns about the consequences for health care. Decreasing cardiovascular mortality has lowered obesity-related mortality, extending duration of disability.We hypothesized increased duration of disability among overweight and obese individuals. We estimated age-, risk-, and st
De gevolgen van economische crises openbaren zich soms eerst jaren of generaties later, zo is in het verleden gebleken. Dit artikel geeft een overzicht van hetgeen tot nu toe bekend is over de effecten van de huidige crisis op internationale migratie. Gedetailleerde studies komen pas over enige tijd
Households are groups of people that co-reside and share some resources. Families are households of related individuals. Household and family demography is the study of these primary social groups or social units, and in particular of group membership and the relationships between members of the gro
Age at menarche is associated with anthropometry in adolescence. Recently, there has been growing support for the hypothesis that timing of menarche may be set early in life but modified by changes in body size and composition in childhood. To evaluate this, a cohort of 255 girls aged \<5 years recr
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