Life Expectancy

Individuals in their last year of life had high rates of depressive symptoms, with nearly 60% experiencing depression in the last month before death, according to results of an observational cross-sectional cohort study published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Life expectancy among adults in the United States increased for nearly 6 decades but eventually slowed over time and then dropped for 3 straight years after 2014, according to a special communication published in JAMA.

NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — Panelists at the OCTANe Medical Technology Innovation Forum discussed the overall effect mental health disorders are having on society and how the health care community can work to respond to this pressing need for nuanced care.

Individuals with mental disorders have significantly higher mortality rates than the general population, according to results of a Danish register-based cohort study published in The Lancet.

Estimated life expectancy of whites and non-Hispanic blacks living in the U.S. aged 25 years dropped between 2010 and 2017. However, expected life-expectancy rose among those in the same cohort with a college education and decreased among those who did not have a 4-year college degree.

Surveyed patients undergoing dialysis were either uncertain or overly optimistic about their prognosis, frequently estimating life expectancy to be longer than is likely, according to a recently published study.

Much cutting-edge research in interventional cardiology was presented at TCT. Cardiology Today obtained insights from Next Gen Innovators who attended the meeting on the implications of some of the presentations that most interested them. Weighing in were Suzanne V. Arnold, MD, MHA, clinical scholar and cardiologist at Saint Luke’s Mid-America Heart Institute and research assistant professor in the department of biomedical and clinical informatics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City; Jay Giri, MD, MPH, FAHA, director of peripheral intervention at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and assistant professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; and Dharam J. Kumbhani, MD, SM, FACC, section chief/director of interventional cardiology and associate professor of medicine at UTSouthwestern Medical Center.