How We Fall Apart: Similarities of Human Aging in 10 European Countries
How We Fall Apart: Similarities of Human Aging in 10 European Countries
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DOI：
10.1007/s13524-017-0641-8
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发表时间：
2018-02-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Strulik, Holger
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作者：
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia;Strulik, Holger
我们使用欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查（SHARE 数据集）的四波数据并构建了健康赤字指数，对一组欧洲个体分析了人类衰老（被理解为健康赤字积累）。对数线性回归的结果表明，平均而言，欧洲老年男性和女性从一个生日到下一个生日的健康缺陷增加了约 2.5%。然而，在非线性回归（类似于 Gompertz-Makeham 模型）中，我们发现老龄化率要高得多，并且男性和女性之间以及国家之间存在巨大差异。有趣的是，这些差异遵循特定的规律（类似于死亡率的补偿效应），并表明男性和女性以及不同国家的平均健康赤字趋同的年龄。这个年龄可能与人类的寿命有关，估计为 102 +/- 2.6 岁。
We analyze human aging-understood as health deficit accumulation-for a panel of European individuals, using four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE data set) and constructing a health deficit index. Results from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average, elderly European men and women develop approximately 2.5 % more health deficits from one birthday to the next. In nonlinear regressions (akin to the Gompertz-Makeham model), however, we find much greater rates of aging and large differences between men and women as well as between countries. Interestingly, these differences follow a particular regularity (akin to the compensation effect of mortality) and suggest an age at which average health deficits converge for men and women and across countries. This age, which may be associated with human life span, is estimated as 102 +/- 2.6 years.