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Fries proposes the compression of morbidity

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James Fries argues in the New England Journal of Medicine that if lifespan is bounded, and if the onset of chronic disease can be postponed faster than death, then illness will be compressed into a shorter period at the end of life. The hypothesis defines healthspan as the quantity that matters, and it has not been confirmed: the gap between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy has not narrowed.

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  2. James Fries argues in the New England Journal of Medicine that if lifespan is bounded, and if the onset of chronic disease can be postponed faster than death, then illness will be compressed into a shorter period at the end of life. The hypothesis defines healthspan as the quantity that matters, and it has not been confirmed: the gap between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy has not narrowed.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Healthspan
  5. Compression of mortality (rectangularisation of the survival curve)
  6. Fries proposes the compression of morbidity
  7. Connections
  8. Healthspan
  9. Compression of mortality (rectangularisation of the survival curve)
  10. The missing surrogate endpoint for ageing
  11. Fries proposes the compression of morbidity
  12. The pandemic erases a decade of life expectancy gains
  13. Maximum human lifespan
  14. The Gompertz mortality law
  15. Fries proposes the compression of morbidity
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  17. Supports the compression-of-morbidity hypothesis as originally stated. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session; the paper is cited for the hypothesis, not as evidence that it holds.
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