Recent trends in US mortality in early and middle adulthood: racial/ethnic disparities in inter-cohort patterns.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A striking increase in the all-cause mortality of US middle-aged non-Hispanic Whites in the past two decades has been documented by previous studies. The inter-cohort patterns in US mortality, as well as their racial/ethnic disparities, are still unclear.

Methods

Using official mortality data, we study US annual mortality rates for ages 25-54 from 1990 to 2016 by gender and race/ethnicity. We conduct an age-period-cohort analysis to disentangle the period and cohort forces driving the absolute changes in mortality across cohorts. Nine leading causes of death are also explored to explain the inter-cohort mortality patterns and their racial/ethnic disparities.

Results

We find cohort-specific elevated mortality trends for gender- and race/ethnicity-specific po

SUBMITTER: Zang E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6934031 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature