Wang, Haidong and Dwyer-Lindgren, Laura and Lofgren, Katherine T and Rajaratnam, Julie Knoll and Marcus, Jacob R and Levin-Rector, Alison and Levitz, Carly E and Lopez, Alan D and Murray, Christopher JL (2012) Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. The Lancet, 380, (9859), pp. 2071-2094. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61719-X.
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Estimation of the number and rate of deaths by age and sex is a key first stage for calculation of the burden of disease in order to constrain estimates of cause-specific mortality and to measure premature mortality in populations. We aimed to estimate life tables and annual numbers of deaths for 187 countries from 1970 to 2010.
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