Thursday, September 1 / 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM   •   Room P 12

Session 35:
Survival: Exploring biological and confounding factors

Chair: Jean-Marie Robine, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) and Université de Montpellier I

  1. The impact of competing risks of death on gains and losses in life expectancy in TurkeyDilek Torun, Hacettepe University

  2. Exploring the role of biological factors in the male-female health-survival paradox using Health Claims DataMichael Nerius, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) ; Anne Fink, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) ; Gabriele Doblhammer-Reiter, Universität Rostock

  3. Is a rise in the prevalence of chronic conditions an inevitable consequence of better survival? Exploring variations in the prevalence of renal replacement therapy, and life expectancy in Europe, 2001-2011Ronny Westerman, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) ; Frederik Peters, Universität Rostock ; Roland Rau, Universität Rostock

  4. Mortality transition in BangladeshAhbab Mohammad Fazle Rabbi, Università di Padova

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