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To examine the age- and cause-specific disease contributions to the evolving life expectancy gap between North and South Korea from 1990 to 2019.

June 7, 2023SSM - Population HealthOpen Access

Changes in contributions of age- and cause-specific mortality to the widening life expectancy gap between North and South Korea, 1990–2019: An analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

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MCMinjae ChoiKorea University JSJoshua Kirabo SempunguKorea University ELEun Hae LeeKorea University

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Decomposition analysis reveals cardiovascular disease and malnutrition drive a persistent mortality gap between North and South Korea, highlighting divergent healthcare access.

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To examine the age- and cause-specific disease contributions to the evolving life expectancy gap between North and South Korea from 1990 to 2019.
Extracted death numbers and population estimates stratified by sex and 5-year age groups for North and South Korea (1990–2019) from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.
Utilized joinpoint regression analysis to evaluate life expectancy trends and decomposition analysis to isolate age- and cause-specific mortality contributions to the cross-country gap.
The life expectancy gap peaked in 1999 at 13.3 years for males and 14.9 years for females, primarily driven by North Korean under-5 mortality from nutritional deficiencies (4.62 years in males, 4.57 years in females; ~30% of total gap).
By 2019, the gap contracted to approximately 10 years, with chronic diseases accounting for 8 of those years and differential cardiovascular disease mortality in older age groups serving as the leading driver.

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Choi et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a816ae00914b5fb8de40532 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101445

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Decomposition analysis reveals cardiovascular disease and malnutrition drive a persistent mortality gap between North and South Korea, highlighting divergent healthcare access.

Changes in contributions of age- and cause-specific mortality to the widening life expectancy gap between North and South Korea, 1990–2019: An analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

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Changes in contributions of age- and cause-specific mortality to the widening life expectancy gap between North and South Korea, 1990–2019: An analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

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