The temporal trend of cause-specific mortality: comparing Estonia and Lithuania, 2001 - 2019

• Main Authors: Alexander Tran (Author), Relika Stoppel (Author), Huan Jiang (Author), Kawon Victoria Kim (Author), Shannon Lange (Author), Janina Petkevičienė (Author), Ričardas Radišauskas (Author), Mindaugas Štelemėkas (Author), Tadas Telksnys (Author), Anush Zafar (Author), Jürgen Rehm (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Despite being two Baltic countries with similar histories, Estonia and Lithuania have diverged in life expectancy trends in recent years. We investigated this divergence by comparing cause-specific mortality trends. Methods We obtained yearly mortality data for individuals 20 + y...