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SUBMITTER: Happola P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7519677 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20200925 1
Health differences among the elderly and the role of medical treatments are topical issues in aging societies. We demonstrate the use of modern statistical learning methods to develop a data-driven health measure based on 21 years of pharmacy purchase and mortality data of 12,047 aging individuals. The resulting score was validated with 33,616 individuals from two fully independent datasets and it is strongly associated with all-cause mortality (HR 1.18 per point increase in score; 95% CI 1.14-1 ...[more]