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The Health Risks of Bereavement: In the first years after losing a spouse in later life, you're significantly more likely to die yourself, with the mortality rate being especially raised for men

03.22.23 | PLOS

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Sex differences in health care expenditures and mortality after spousal bereavement: A register-based Danish cohort study
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The Health Risks of Bereavement: In the first years after losing a spouse in later life, you're significantly more likely to die yourself, with the mortality rate being especially raised for men

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282892

Article Title: Sex differences in health care expenditures and mortality after spousal bereavement: A register-based Danish cohort study

Author Countries: Denmark, UK, Singapore

Funding: AK, RGJW, and LHM are supported by The Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme for the project Harnessing the Power of Big Data to Address the Societal Challenge of Aging (NNF17OC0027812). SB acknowledges support from The Novo Nordisk Foundation via the Novo Nordisk Young Investigator Award (NNF20OC0059309), which also supports SM. LHM is employed at Statistics Denmark, the national Danish Statistics office, which organization holds the right to the registry data used in the study. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There was no additional external funding received for this study.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0282892

Sex differences in health care expenditures and mortality after spousal bereavement: A register-based Danish cohort study

22-Mar-2023

The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: LHM is employed at Statistics Denmark, the national Danish Statistics office. This does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Keywords

Grief Health and Medicine Health Care Mortality Rates Social Sciences

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0282892
Article Publication Date
2023-03-22
Article Title
Sex differences in health care expenditures and mortality after spousal bereavement: A register-based Danish cohort study
COI Statement
The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: LHM is employed at Statistics Denmark, the national Danish Statistics office. This does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

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Hanna Abdallah
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How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2023, March 22). The Health Risks of Bereavement: In the first years after losing a spouse in later life, you're significantly more likely to die yourself, with the mortality rate being especially raised for men. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/8Y454GKL/the-health-risks-of-bereavement-in-the-first-years-after-losing-a-spouse-in-later-life-youre-significantly-more-likely-to-die-yourself-with-the-mortality-rate-being-especially-raised-for-men.html
MLA:
"The Health Risks of Bereavement: In the first years after losing a spouse in later life, you're significantly more likely to die yourself, with the mortality rate being especially raised for men." Brightsurf News, Mar. 22 2023, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/8Y454GKL/the-health-risks-of-bereavement-in-the-first-years-after-losing-a-spouse-in-later-life-youre-significantly-more-likely-to-die-yourself-with-the-mortality-rate-being-especially-raised-for-men.html.