Non-communicable diseases are key to further narrow gender gap in life expectancy in Shanghai, China

• Main Authors: Hanyi Chen (Author), Yi Zhou (Author), Lianghong Sun (Author), Yichen Chen (Author), Xiaobin Qu (Author), Hua Chen (Author), Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa (Author), Shaotan Xiao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background To address change in the gender gap of life expectancy (GGLE) in Shanghai from 1973 to 2018, and to identify the major causes of death and age groups associated with the change over time. Methods The temporal trend in GGLE was evaluated using retrospective demographic analysis wi...