No evidence of morbidity compression in Spain: a time series study based on national hospitalization records.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Compression of morbidity postulates that as the populations age, the age of onset of disease is postponed. The objective of this study is to test for evidence of compression of morbidity in Spain.

Methods

We calculated the age and sex-specific incidence of myocardial infarction, heart failure, cerebrovascular disease, as well as bladder, prostate, breast, lung, and colon cancer among hospital discharges covering 99.5 % of the Spanish population, approximately 40 million inhabitants for two non-overlapping periods, 1997-2000 and 2007-2010, and estimated the length of life spent with disease using the Sullivan method.

Results

We found that expansion of morbidity due to an earlier age-specific onset of incident disease and increase in life expectancy was the n

SUBMITTER: Walter S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7446746 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature