 Life Expectancy
"Life Expectancy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Based on known statistical data, the number of years which any person of a given age may reasonably expected to live.
| Descriptor ID |
D008017
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.985.450 N01.224.935.464 N06.850.505.400.975.450 N06.850.520.308.985.450
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| Concept/Terms |
Life Expectancy- Life Expectancy
- Expectancies, Life
- Expectancy, Life
- Life Expectancies
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| 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2008 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2015 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2016 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2020 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Life Expectancy" by people in Profiles.
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Kline DM, Padmanabhan P, Brewer SE, Cerdá M, Versen E, Keyes KM, Kushel M, Wilson EC, Wesson P, Hyder A, Boyer A, Al-Tayyib A, Barocas JA. Improving health and housing outcomes through a simulation and economic model: an evidence-based protocol of a group model building approach to develop an agent-based model. Front Public Health. 2025; 13:1623385.
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Gupta A, Hathi P, Banaji M, Gupta P, Kashyap R, Paikra V, Sharma K, Somanchi A, Sudharsanan N, Vyas S. Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020. Sci Adv. 2024 Jul 19; 10(29):eadk2070.
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Kanter R, Fort MP. Rethinking health policy: life expectancy and mortality in an era of polycrisis. Lancet. 2024 05 18; 403(10440):1956-1958.
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Jawa R, Tin Y, Nall S, Calcaterra SL, Savinkina A, Marks LR, Kimmel SD, Linas BP, Barocas JA. Estimated Clinical Outcomes and Cost-effectiveness Associated With Provision of Addiction Treatment in US Primary Care Clinics. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 04 03; 6(4):e237888.
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Aburto JM, Tilstra AM, Floridi G, Dowd JB. Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 08 30; 119(35):e2205813119.
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Vyas S, Hathi P, Gupta A. Social disadvantage, economic inequality, and life expectancy in nine Indian states. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 03 08; 119(10):e2109226119.
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Salinas M, Solomon JJ, Fern?ndez P?rez ER. Connective Tissue Disease-Interstitial Lung Disease-Associated Mortality Rates and Years of Potential Life Lost in the United States. Chest. 2021 10; 160(4):1368-1371.
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Duboz P, Macia E, Diallo AH, Cohen E, Bergouignan A, Seck SM. The good life in rural and urban Senegal: A qualitative and quantitative study. PLoS One. 2021; 16(5):e0252134.
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Gelfman LP, Sudore RL, Mather H, McKendrick K, Hutchinson MD, Lampert RJ, Lipman HI, Matlock DD, Swetz KM, Pinney SP, Morrison RS, Goldstein NE. Prognostic Awareness and Goals of Care Discussions Among Patients With Advanced Heart Failure. Circ Heart Fail. 2020 09; 13(9):e006502.
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Comans TA, Nguyen KH, Ratcliffe J, Rowen D, Mulhern B. Valuing the AD-5D Dementia Utility Instrument: An Estimation of a General Population Tariff. Pharmacoeconomics. 2020 08; 38(8):871-881.
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