Publications by authors named "J W Vaupel"
Article Synopsis
- This study investigates why females generally have longer lifespans than males, revealing that genetic factors linked to longevity are more significant in females based on extensive analysis of data from centenarians in China.
- The research highlights that findings are consistent across various regions in China and are supported by analyses involving a large dataset of over 5,000 centenarians, indicating a potentially global pattern in genetic associations with longevity.
- The study suggests moving away from a "one-size-fits-all" approach in healthcare, encouraging tailored medical interventions that account for sex-based genetic differences and their impacts on health outcomes.
Everyone has a chronological age. Because survivorship declines relentlessly in populations with age-specific death rates greater than zero, everyone also has a survivorship age ("s-age"), the age at which a proportion s of the population is still alive. S-ages can be estimated for both periods and cohorts.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
August 2021
High excess deaths in Sweden during the first wave of COVID-19: Policy deficiencies or 'dry tinder'?
Scand J Public Health
February 2022
Aims: During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden registered a high level of excess deaths. Non-pharmaceutical interventions adopted by Sweden have been milder compared to those implemented in Denmark. Moreover, Sweden might have started the pandemic with a large proportion of vulnerable elderly with a high mortality risk.
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