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Potential gains in health-adjusted life expectancy from reducing four main non-communicable diseases among Chinese
Xiaoqian Hu1, Xueshan Sun1, Yuanyuan Li1
1Center for Health Policy Studies, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zijingang Campus, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
Background:
To estimate the potential gains in health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) after hypothetical elimination of four non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among Chinese elderly from 1990 to 2016, including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (CRD) and diabetes mellitus (DM).
Methods:
Based on data from Global Burden of Disease 2016, we generated life table by gender using Sullivan method to calculate HALE. Disease-deleted method was used to calculate cause-elimination HALE, after hypothetical elimination of specific diseases.
Results:
From 1990 to 2016, HALE increased for all age groups. After hypothetic eliminating the four main NCDs, potential gain in HALE by CVD, DM and cancers increased while by CRD decreased from 1990 to 2016 for both genders. Among four main NCDs, potential gain in HALE after eliminating CVD was largest and increased most for both genders. Although elimination of DM led to the smallest gain in HALE, the increasing speed of gain in HALE by DM was faster than that by CVD and cancers from 1990 to 2016.
Conclusions:
This study highlights the potential gains in HALE of NCDs among Chinese elderly from 1990 to 2016. HALE of Chinese elderly could further increase from the reduction of NCDs. Control measures and targeted prevention should be carried out.
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