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SUBMITTER: McCarthy D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10057846 | biostudies-literature | 2023
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McCarthy David D Wang Po-Lin PL
PloS one 20230329 3
A key but unresolved issue in the study of human mortality at older ages is whether mortality is being compressed (which implies that we may be approaching a maximum limit to the length of life) or postponed (which would imply that we are not). We analyze historical and current population mortality data between ages 50 and 100 by birth cohort in 19 currently-industrialized countries, using a Bayesian technique to surmount cohort censoring caused by survival, to show that while the dominant histo ...[more]