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Improvements in the incidence and survival of cancer and cardiovascular but not infectious disease have driven recent mortality improvements in Scotland: nationwide cohort study of linked hospital admission and death records 2001–2016
2019-08-05
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<h4>Objectives</h4> To identify the causes and future trends underpinning improvements in life expectancy in Scotland and quantify the relative contributions of disease incidence and survival. <h4>Design</h4> Population-based study. <h4>Setting</h4> Linked secondary care and mortality records across Scotland. <h4>Participants</h4> 1,967,130 individuals born between 1905 and 1965, and resident in Scotland throughou...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8ca9c448-7c56-5c5d-a5e9-c31d6575d73d
- DOI
- 10.1101/19003012
