Direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and person-years of life lost with and without disability: A systematic analysis for 18 European countries, 2020-2022.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy (LE) and years of life lost with and without disability remain unclear. Accounting for pre-pandemic trends in morbidity and mortality, we assessed these impacts in 18 European countries, for the years 2020-2022.

Methods and findings

We used multi-state Markov modeling based on several data sources to track transitions of the population aged 35 or older between eight health states from disease-free, combinations of cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, dementia, and disability, through to death. We quantified separately numbers and rates of deaths attributable to COVID-19 from those related to mortality from other causes during 2020-2022, and estimated the proportion of loss of life

SUBMITTER: Ahmadi-Abhari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11896051 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature