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SUBMITTER: Walter S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7446746 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Walter Stefan S Beltrán-Sánchez Hiram H Regidor Enrique E Gomez-Martin Carlos C Del-Barrio Jose Luis JL Gil-de-Miguel Angel A Subramanian S V SV Gil-Prieto Ruth R
International journal of public health 20160527 7
<h4>Objectives</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>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 ...[more]