Background: Stagnating cardiovascular disease mortality and rising drug- and suicide-related deaths are key drivers of stalled US mortality improvements. However, prior research has largely overlooked disease histories preceding death, despite increasing multimorbidity. We examined changes in disease-history profiles in the US population and assessed how shifts in profile composition and within-profile mortality shaped mortality trends.Methods:… Continue reading Sicker at all ages? Two decades of changing disease histories and mortality in the United States
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The Contribution of #Sociocultural Factors in Shaping Self-Reported #Sickness Behavior
..Typical components of sickness behavior include reduced sociability and activity, changes in diet, and depressed affect. Importantly, however, sickness behavior appears to be subject to other demands of life history in animal models, including reproduction and offspring survival. ..After post-stratification weighting and correction for Type I error, generalized linear models showed that sickness behavior is… Continue reading The Contribution of #Sociocultural Factors in Shaping Self-Reported #Sickness Behavior
