Life Tables

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A General Algorithm for Estimating a Markov-Generated Increment-Decrement Life Table with Applications to Marital Status Patterns 
  • A duality in aging: the equivalence of mortality models based on radically different concepts. 
  • A five-drug remission induction regimen with intensive consolidation for adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: cancer and leukemia group B study 8811. 
  • A tale of two trials: a comparison of the post-acute coronary syndrome lipid-lowering trials A to Z and PROVE IT-TIMI 22. 
  • Active life expectancy estimates for the U.S. elderly population: a multidimensional continuous-mixture model of functional change applied to completed cohorts, 1982-1996. 
  • Adequacy of 1-cm distal margin after restorative rectal cancer resection with sharp mesorectal excision and preoperative combined-modality therapy. 
  • Age of marriage and length of the first birth interval in a traditional Indian society: life table and hazards model analysis. 
  • Age-specific prevalence and years of healthy life in a system with three health states. 
  • Autologous bone marrow transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Changes in health service use and mortality among U.S. elderly in 1980-1986. 
  • Changes in plasma HIV-1 RNA and CD4+ lymphocyte counts and the risk of progression to AIDS. Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on AIDS. 
  • Changes in the age dependence of mortality and disability: cohort and other determinants. 
  • Changing health status and health expectancies among older adults in China: gender differences from 1992 to 2002. 
  • Cohort changes in active life expectancy in the U.S. elderly population: experience from the 1982-2004 National Long-Term Care Survey. 
  • Cohort differences and chronic disease profiles of differential disability trajectories. 
  • Combination of low-dose flutamide and finasteride for PSA-only recurrent prostate cancer after primary therapy. 
  • Comprehensive analysis of chromosome 1p deletions in neuroblastoma. 
  • Continuous infusion 5-fluorouracil as first-line therapy for metastatic breast cancer. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of posaconazole versus fluconazole or itraconazole in the prevention of invasive fungal infections among neutropenic patients in the United States. 
  • Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) levels before and after chemotherapy: a study in rectal cancer. 
  • Cytologic screening after hysterectomy for benign disease. 
  • Does prior benign prostate biopsy predict outcome for patients treated with radical perineal prostatectomy? 
  • Education-specific estimates of life expectancy and age-specific disability in the U.S. elderly population: 1982 to 1991. 
  • Educational status and active life expectancy among older blacks and whites. 
  • Effect of pexelizumab in coronary artery bypass graft surgery with extended aortic cross-clamp time. 
  • Effects of changing demographic factors upon women's family status in China: a model of a family status life table and its application. 
  • Effects of the status of women on the first-birth interval in Indian urban society. 
  • Empirical reconstruction of the renal artery: long-term outcome. 
  • Epidermal growth factor receptor expression in normal ovarian epithelium and ovarian cancer. I. Correlation of receptor expression with prognostic factors in patients with ovarian cancer. 
  • Estimating increment-decrement life tables with multiple covariates from panel data: the case of active life expectancy. 
  • Estimating the impact of wide scale uptake of screening and medications for opioid use disorder in US prisons and jails. 
  • Estimating the length of waits: a description of the period lifetable method and comparison with census and event based methods. 
  • Ex-vivo gene therapy of human vascular bypass grafts with E2F decoy: the PREVENT single-centre, randomised, controlled trial. 
  • Experience with the Baerveldt glaucoma implant in treating neovascular glaucoma. 
  • Female and male life tables for seven wild primate species. 
  • First steps in analysing NHS waiting times: avoiding the 'stationary and closed population' fallacy. 
  • Forecasts of active life expectancy: policy and fiscal implications. 
  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. 
  • Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. 
  • Heart Failure "End Result Cards": Solid B. 
  • Hepatic dysfunction following busulfan and cyclophosphamide myeloablation: a retrospective, multicenter analysis. 
  • How heritable is individual susceptibility to death? The results of an analysis of survival data on Danish, Swedish and Finnish twins. 
  • Idiopathic collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: a clinicopathologic study. 
  • Impact of internal mammary artery conduit on long-term outcomes after percutaneous intervention of saphenous vein graft. 
  • Impact of mitral valve regurgitation evaluated by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography on long-term outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Individual and aggregate years-of-life-lost associated with overweight and obesity. 
  • Iris melanoma: risk factors for metastasis in 169 consecutive patients. 
  • J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Paper. Early fundoplication prevents chronic allograft dysfunction in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease. 
  • Laser suture lysis after mitomycin C trabeculectomy. 
  • Lifetime Prevalence of Investigating Child Maltreatment Among US Children. 
  • Long-term clinical course of patients after termination of ventricular tachyarrhythmia by an implanted defibrillator. 
  • Long-term follow-Up of a randomized trial of two irradiation regimens for patients receiving allogeneic marrow transplants during first remission of acute myeloid leukemia. 
  • Long-term follow-up of allogeneic marrow transplants in patients with aplastic anemia conditioned by cyclophosphamide combined with antithymocyte globulin. 
  • Long-term outcome of cyclocryotherapy for refractory pediatric glaucoma. 
  • Long-term outcomes of the symmetry vein graft anastomosis device: a matched case-control analysis. 
  • Malignancies after marrow transplantation for aplastic anemia and fanconi anemia: a joint Seattle and Paris analysis of results in 700 patients. 
  • Marrow transplantation for patients in accelerated phase of chronic myeloid leukemia. 
  • Measurement of vascular input impedance in infrainguinal vein grafts. 
  • Meta-analysis: excess mortality after hip fracture among older women and men. 
  • Models for forecasting chronic disease processes in adult and elderly populations: effects of stochasticity. 
  • Mortality in Italy: contours of a century of evolution. 
  • Mortality in Vietnam, 1979-1989. 
  • Mortality in patients after a recent myocardial infarction: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of azimilide using heart rate variability for risk stratification. 
  • Mortality rates among wild chimpanzees. 
  • Newly diagnosed and previously known diabetes mellitus and 1-year outcomes of acute myocardial infarction: the VALsartan In Acute myocardial iNfarcTion (VALIANT) trial. 
  • Obtaining multistate life table distributions for highly refined subpopulations from cross-sectional data: A Bayesian extension of Sullivan's method. 
  • Outcome in elderly patients undergoing primary coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction: results from the Controlled Abciximab and Device Investigation to Lower Late Angioplasty Complications (CADILLAC) trial. 
  • Percutaneous and open renal revascularizations have equivalent long-term functional outcomes. 
  • Personalized predictive modeling for patients with Alzheimer's disease using an extension of Sullivan's life table model. 
  • Polymerase chain reaction detection of the BCR-ABL fusion transcript after allogeneic marrow transplantation for chronic myeloid leukemia: results and implications in 346 patients. 
  • Popliteal artery aneurysms: a 25-year surgical experience. 
  • Popliteal-to-distal bypass: identifying risk factors associated with limb loss and graft failure. 
  • Population distribution of lifetime risk of ovarian cancer in the United States. 
  • Postoperative radiotherapy of the prostate for patients undergoing radical prostatectomy with positive margins, seminal vesicle involvement and/or penetration through the capsule. 
  • Postremission therapy with low-dose interleukin 2 with or without intermediate pulse dose interleukin 2 therapy is well tolerated in elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia: Cancer and Leukemia Group B study 9420. 
  • Preliminary experience with split liver transplantation. 
  • Pretreatment cytogenetic abnormalities are predictive of induction success, cumulative incidence of relapse, and overall survival in adult patients with de novo acute myeloid leukemia: results from Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB 8461). 
  • Psychiatric disorders in youths with IDDM: rates and risk factors. 
  • Restrictive left ventricular filling patterns in very old patients with congestive heart failure: clinical correlates and prognostic significance. 
  • Risk factor dynamics, mortality and life expectancy differences between eastern and western Finland: the Finnish Cohorts of the Seven Countries Study. 
  • Risk of late stroke and survival following carotid endarterectomy procedures for symptomatic patients. 
  • Risk-adjusted short- and long-term outcomes for on-pump versus off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Serum protein expression predicts recurrence in patients with early-stage lung cancer after resection. 
  • Single versus multiple internal mammary artery grafting for coronary artery bypass: 15-year follow-up of a clinical practice trial. 
  • Squamous cell carcinoma of the buccal mucosa. 
  • Ten-year experience with mitral valve replacement in the elderly. 
  • The Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study. 
  • The Effect of altering ADL thresholds on active life expectancy estimates for older persons. 
  • The aging baboon: comparative demography in a non-human primate. 
  • The genetic attributable risk of breast and ovarian cancer. 
  • The new trends in survival improvement require a revision of traditional gerontological concepts. 
  • The role of breast-feeding beyond postpartum amenorrhoea on the return of fertility in India: a life table and hazards model analysis. 
  • Third stage of labor: analysis of duration and clinical practice. 
  • Thoracoscopic lobectomy: a safe and effective strategy for patients receiving induction therapy for non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Topotecan, a topoisomerase I inhibitor, is active in the treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. 
  • Toward a more meaningful in vitro fertilization success rate. 
  • Unrelated donor marrow transplantation in children. 
  • Use of Medicare services before and after introduction of the prospective payment system. 
  • Using renal transplantation to evaluate a simple approach for predicting the impact of end-stage renal disease therapies on patient survival: observed/expected life span. 
  • Variation in stochastic demography between and within central and peripheral regions in a widespread short-lived herb. 
  • What do we know? Limitations of the two methods most commonly used to estimate the length of the prospective wait. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Merli, M. Giovanna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Global Health Institute
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology