Life Expectancy

Older adults with end-stage kidney disease had “modest gains” in life expectancy by starting on dialysis vs. choosing continuing medical management but spent less time at home, results from study show.

The COVID-19 pandemic obliterated a decade of progress in global life expectancy, according to the 2024 World Health Statistics report.

Evaluating the loss of life expectancy among patients diagnosed with cutaneous melanoma may help establish a lifetime prognosis for patients, according to a study.

The combination of statin use and healthy lifestyle was linked to a 30% lower risk for all-cause death and 44% reduced risk for CV death in people at high CV risk vs. those not taking statins with an unhealthy lifestyle, data show.

The gender gap in life expectancy in the United States has grown in recent years, with women living nearly 6 years longer than men on average, according to the results of a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Life expectancy for individuals with sickle cell disease has increased by a decade since 2008, according to a study conducted by Epic Research.

Older women who had 5% or more unintentional weight loss had lower life expectancy compared with women with stable weight, according to data from the Women’s Health Initiative published in The Journals of Gerontology.

The Veterans Health Administration’s Care Assessment Need tool may be able to predict the life expectancy of veterans, helping facilitate conversation about treatment for basal cell carcinoma, according to a study.

Pancreatic islet transplantation may reduce transplant failure risk and boost long-term survival vs. insulin alone in kidney transplant recipients with type 1 diabetes, new data show.

Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension receiving sotatercept, a novel activin signaling inhibitor, plus background therapy are expected to live longer, according to a European Respiratory Society International Congress presentation.